Can you post the whole statement? Which VFP version/SP you're using? Can you also post Rushmore results?

>If I create an index on the last four digits on the SSN field . . .
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>index on right(SSN,4) tag Last4SSN
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>and I have a query that has a where clause like so . . .
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>where right(SSN,4) = "1234"
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>then the way I understand it - and the way the help system seems to indicate - the query is Rushmore optimizable. Yet when I check for the optimization level, it says "none".
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>What am I missing? Am I misreading the docs or are they lying to me?
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>Russell Campbell