>>>There is an index on TableFormProperties.TableName, but the date is in mixed case, so I can't do a SEEK (or can I?). I'm doing this in a LOCATE, but that seems a bit wrong somehow. Is this the right way to do it, or is there a better way.
>>>

>>>lcTableName = "MyTableName"
>>>SELECT TableFormProperties
>>>LOCATE FOR ALLTRIM(UPPER(TableName) = ALLTRIM(UPPER(lcTableName))
>>>

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>>It's my opinion that Alltrim() should be avoided as much as possible, unless you really need it. This code will give the same result, and will be much faster if you have an index tag on upper(Tablename). It will also be independent of the Set Exact setting:

>>lcTableName = "MyTableName"
>>SELECT TableFormProperties
>>lcTableName = padr(lcTableName,len(TableName))
>>LOCATE FOR UPPER(TableName) == upper(lcTableName)

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>I should have stated that the index does not use UPPER, but I see if one was put on in the future it would affect performance.

Anyway, the use of alltrim() can often be very dangerous, but not in this case where you know the value up front. But if lcTablename was an empty string, LOCATE FOR ALLTRIM(UPPER(TableName) = ALLTRIM(UPPER(lcTableName)) would match all the records, my code would only find any blank records.