Bret:
Do what is SET('DELETED')=?
Do you have an index on !DELETED()?
Have you turned on SYS(3054,1) to check rushmore optimization?

>I need to delete a large portion of a parent table which has some child tables. RI is set to cascade these deletes. The delete processes very slowly and never seems to finish. It looks like
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>DELETE FROM mytable WHERE mytable.group <> "rightgroup"
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>I have indexes on all the keyfields and on the group field. The main table has about 5000 records, and the two child tables have a few thousand and several hundred each.
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>I did this before without any trouble. I don't remember what I did differently, except that I was using vfp3 instead of vfp6.