>I haven't used SET RELATION / SET KEY etc this decade, and probably this century. I use SQL commands instead.
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>I find SQL more readable and maintainable, and generally portable to other SQL backends. You can handle outer joins, NULLs etc which might be difficult to do reliably with the VFP ISAM engine.
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>The vast majority of times when I've encountered code like this, it's ancient/legacy code: either converted dBASE, or from FoxBASE. In most cases I've found it easier to rewrite using SQL than to figure out how and where to tweak the legacy code. I don't miss SET RELATION one bit.
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>I've never tested the speed vs SQL, but even if it's lots faster I've never had a use case where such an improvement would be important or meaningful.
Thank you for your input.
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