Oh really sorry, if it hurted you in anyway. Actually when I was replying a neighbour came to my house and in haste i just replied and closed, otherwise.....I am not such a person. Anyway , please dont take it in heart and Thanks a lot for the help.

Regards
'Harsh



>>No sir, The Evaluation condition IF RECNO()%=0 is taking much more time as compared to my original code. I tested it 5 times on around 10000 records and fould that ech time it 30-35 seconds more. that may be perhaps of evaluating the IF condition each time.
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>>Than I removed both i.e Wait wind and IF condition , than too I found that there was hardly a 10 sec difference
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>>So i dont think that ,that issue is causing a huge delay
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>Surprised I did not see any 'thank you' in your reply - you might want to learn this http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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>Did you test the entire code or just the 3 last lines? The key point for optimization is the Seek() an INDEX on the foreign key of the child table. That'll be equally important with any method including SQL
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>good luck