>Hi,
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>>The "%" sign may be at the beginning, or at the end; therefore, Visual FoxPro can't optimize the query with an index. That is, an index on field REFN can't be used.
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>In my case, the % is always at the end.
According to what Naomi says in another message, in this case VFP 9 is intelligent enough to optimize. (I didn't know that.)
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