>We have a table that is super slow when accessing records in the buffer.
>
>When doing a select command using "WITH (BUFFERING = .T.)" the results are returned in about 30 minutes as
>opposed to doing the same select without the (BUFFERING = .T.) returning data in seconds. There are about
>5,000 records in the buffer that haven't been committed to the table yet with a TABLEUPDATE.
>
>The select statement is fully optimizable because there's an index on every field in the selection criteria.
>
>What could be causing this type of slow down? Even stopping the execution of the code and browsing the
>table is painfully slow.

See also Re: Select WITH Buffering = .t. Thread #1136217 Message #1136606 or the whole thread.

We did switch to SEEKs instead in the original program.