>Hi Ed (and Perry)!!
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>You can actually SCAN...ENDSCAN a remote table regardless of back-end source...not that you'd want to.
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>>>I'd like to know, would a SCAN...ENDSCAN retrieve data faster than an SQL-SELECT from a remote server???? I'd like to add an OLEBar for download progress into my form, and I was wondering which would be the better to use.
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>>>I almost forgot, my SELECT has 3 conditions to meet.
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>>>TIA
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>>Probably, you mean VFP database, and not back-end server (because SCAN is applicable to VFP only). If this is a case, then the difference is following: SEEK/SCAN will be faster if you retrieve few records (few may mean even few hundreds). However, the bigger is number of retrieved records, the faster comparable SQL-SELECT will be.


Actually,

My dept is on one server, and the table I am accessing is on another server.