>>>>I am trying in the command box to set a filter to records with podtime(date time expression) = today
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>>>>How do I do this
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>>>>Thanks
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>>>Don't use SET FILTER, use SQL Select or something else.
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>>Thanks
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>>Thanks I eventually did it with
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>>SET FILTER TO day(podtime)=11 AND MONTH(podtime)=5 AND YEAR(podtime)=2016
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>>Thanks
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>>Colin
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>SET FILTER uses the same optimization that SQL uses - except that SQL can optimize across multiple tables at once.
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>SET FILTER TO podtime = date(2016,5,11) will work if podtime is a date. If you also have an index on podtime, it will optimize.

Thanks for that - thats the answer I manages t wotk out