>>>>>What can be done to allow an append, from a large delimited text file, to proceed at optimal speed?
>>>>>In some environments, my append slows way down.
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>>>>Use Local destination table/cursor w/o indexes
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>>>Also you should run your .EXE at client's own HDD, not a server's HDD from client.
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>>I agree with Sergey. The location of the exe won't affect the speed of append from. However, for the same reason that a local exe is better than a remote one, it will be faster to append to a local cursor.
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>That is only true if the cursor is not materialized (yet)
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>If FILE(DBF("MyCursor")) returns .T. the cursor is flushed to disk. Then there is no difference between a cursor and a (local) DBF.

But still a huge difference between local disk and one on the network. And if the local disk is a SSD...