>>>One of our customers is having some time problems with a procedure of closing the period of a particular module. We just identified the step where the function takes the longest which i am posting here
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>*:This is a temp cursor with xx,xxx amount of records, since I do not have access to the real data
>>>*:I just can't really now how many records there are, but most likely there are thousands
>>>select CurIctfer
>>>go top in CurIctfer
>>>
>>>*:This is basically a wrapper routine for the SQLPrepare() VFP function
>>>if !PrepareSql(pnHandle, "insert into mySQlTable (cuid,cbatcno,cjeid, cacctid,cdescript,creference," +;
>>>   "cyear, cpdno, cstatus, csource, dtrs, ntrsamt, ctrstype, ctrsno, cobjno) values (?CurIctfer.cuid, " +;
>>>   "?CurIctfer.cbatcno, " +;
>>>   "?CurIctfer.cjeid, ?CurIctfer.cacctid, ?CurIctfer.cdescript, ?CurIctfer.creference," + ;
>>>   "?CurIctfer.cyear, ?CurIctfer.cpdno, ?CurIctfer.cstatus, ?CurIctfer.csource," +;
>>>   " ?CurIctfer.cTrs, ?CurIctfer.ntrsamt, ?CurIctfer.cTrsType, ?CurIctfer.cTrsNo, ?CurIctfer.cObjNo)")
>>>    return .f.
>>>endif
>>>
>>>*:and here is where the inserts are made, goes record by record and inserts each one to the back end
>>>*:database
>>>scan
>>>    if !SetSqlData(, pnHandle)
>>>        return .f.
>>>    endif
>>>ENDSCAN
>>>
>>>=UnprepareSql(pnHandle)
>>>
>>>

>>>
>>>The customer claims this piece of code takes over 2 hours. so I was wondering if We change the Scan..Insert..Endscan and replace it with a append from kinda like this
>>>
>>>

>>>*:I would create a Remote view, NoDataOnLoad, base on the mySQlTable, Table Buffering
>>>Select mySQlTable
>>>APPEND FROM CurIctfer
>>>TABLEUPDATE()
>>>

>>>
>>>do you guys think this would be faster, or slower?
>>>
>>>maybe not with a append from, maybe the "CurIctfer" could be a remote view, and then just perfom the Tableupdate(). would this be helpfull?
>>>
>>>Once again, i do not have the actual data to do the testing so this is basically Hypothetical
>>>
>>>regards
>>
>>Why not make this cursor updatable and send all updates directly?
>
>acctually that is what I implied on the note above
>
>>>maybe not with a append from, maybe the "CurIctfer" could be a remote view, and then just perfom the Tableupdate()
>
>would it be faster?

How many records?
BTW, From where your CurIctfer cursor comes from?, Can't you do its creation directly on your BackEnd?