Hi Bruce,

>The old "conventional wisdom" was really quite valid until the use of NOFILTER was added, which has become an increasingly important feature...I think the old "rules" need a little re-write for this usage, and I agree, MS Rushmore gurus would be the best people to do this...

I don't think that NOFILTER is really the key here. First of all, only for a limited number of queries, VFP creates a filtered view. Second, it has done the same since many versions back. Usually people worked around that by adding a field to the result that or by adding WHERE .T. to the filter condition.

Christof