>>OK.. I see what you mean.. I will open all my tables and cursorsetprop() in
>>main.prg and close them at exit time...:)
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>This is a huge performace hit when there is alot of transactions out there. Just dummy up a test tabel with 1.5 million transactions and delete 5% of them. When you type in USE TEST in 0 order XXX it coudl take up to 1 min just to regain control.
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>This is why the views are better. You never need the entire 1.5 million records unless it's a report. So a parameterized view to 1000 records of the 1.5 million is in your best interest.
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>There are indexing tricks to speed up performance here just to poen the file.
>Index on DELETED() is a must.
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Thanks Stephen... I see what you mean...thanks for your help... :)