Jerry,

Try the following:

1. Add NOFILTER clause to your query

2. Would it help to select from the Calls table first and then join with the second table?

e.g.

select T.*, Cust... from (select * from Calls where ...) T left join Cust on T.ID = Cust.ID

3. The DELETE() index may be a problem.

>I have a VFP9 Win App that uses the below query. How can I speed up this query?
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>The SYS(3054, 1) reports that "Rushmore optimization level is Full" for both tables. But the query takes about 5 seconds to execute. One table has about 600,000 records and the other has about 50,000. The number of rows returned from the query should be around 40.
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>Also, both tables have an index for "DELETED()" and each column being filtered has an index on that column.
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>Any suggestions?
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>Thanks,
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>Jerry
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