>>I have install SQLExpress2008 on a WS2003 with 2 Gb RAM (development machine)
>>
>>When I run a query against a table with 100.000 records from the Microsoft SQl Server Managent studio:
>> [ Select top 1000 from sometable ]
>>It returns the results in less than a second.
>>
>>But when I run the same query from VFP
>> [ sqlexec(nHandle, "Select top 1000 from sometable ", "cur") ]
>>It takes for ever, more than 15 seconds.
>>What is the problem ?
>
>Where is your ORDER BY clause in the above statement? As far as I recall, TOP is not optimizable (I'll double check).

Same performance WITH/WITHOUT order by clause