>>>Because VFP is not really ANSI complaint and has its own implementation of SQL language. That's why VFP has different syntax. I don't know if internally in VFP that expression is calculated more than needed but in SQL Server in doesn't calculate in both places.
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>>How did you verify that in SQL Server having the same expression ( (COUNT(....))>5) ) is not being calculated in both places?
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>Try running with showing execution plan. You can also use
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>SET SHOWPLAN option
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>See
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http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DBAdmin/MSSQLServerAdmin/getting-started-with-execution-plansThank you.
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