>Hi,
>
>If I want to exclude empty records from a query for VFP data I would use:
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>select * from MyTable where !empty( MyField )
>

>
>To do the same for SQL server, the query is:
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>select * from MyTable where MyField <> ''
>

>
>If I wanted to have one SQL expression that works for both VFP and SQL, I can do the following
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>select * from MyTable where LEN(rtrim( MyField) ) > 0
>

>
>Is the above efficient method or there is a better approach?
>
>TIA

EMPTY is not optimizable in FoxPro. I usually do LOCATE FOR field = space(len(field)) or something of that nature.