>The following code works, it prints "Pick Tickets" for a Mail Order house. But for the life of me, I can't figure out why the last piece of the puzzle, PTLinePart, the last Procedure of four, takes 90+% of the entire PicTicView's time.

Could be the ORDER BYs -- try removing them, see how it is. If that's it, you could speed it up by just indexing the cursor after the SQL.

>*** Print Pick Tickets
>PROCEDURE PickTick
>LPARAMETERS condition
>PUBLIC lcCCNo, lcExpDate, lnAmt, mainphone
>DO PicTicView WITH condition
>REPORT FORM rptPickTick TO PRINTER PREVIEW
>RELEASE lcCCNo,lcExpDate, lnAmt, mainphone
>RETURN
>
>
>PROCEDURE PicTicView
>LPARAMETERS condition
>DO PTBasicPart WITH condition
>DO PTShipPart
>DO PTBillPart
>DO PTLinePart
>RETURN
>
>
>PROCEDURE PTBasicPart
>LPARAMETERS condition
>sql_stmt = ;
> "SELECT " ;
>+ "ord_id, ord_no, ord_date, ord_taxamt / ord_stotal * 100 AS tax_rate,
>comp_abbr, order_type, ost_desc, empl_abbr " ;
>+ "FROM ord_hdrs hdr " ;
>+ "JOIN company com ON hdr.comp_id = com.comp_id " ;
>+ "JOIN ordtypes oty ON hdr.otyp_id = oty.otyp_id " ;
>+ "JOIN ord_stat ost ON hdr.ost_id = ost.ost_id " ;
>+ "JOIN employee emp ON hdr.empl_id = emp.empl_id " ;
>+ "WHERE " + condition + " " ;
>+ "ORDER BY ord_no " ;
>+ "INTO CURSOR Temp1"
>&sql_stmt
>RETURN
>
>
>PROCEDURE PTShipPart
>SELECT t1.*, osh_no, ;
>cst_no AS scst_no, ALLTRIM(cst_fname) + ' ' + cst_lname AS scst_name,
>cst_add1 AS scst_add1, cst_add2 AS scst_add2, ;
>ALLTRIM(city) + ' ' + ALLTRIM(st) + ', ' + ALLTRIM(post_code) +
>IIF(ctry_abbr = 'USA','',' '+ctry_abbr) AS saddrest, ;
>TRAN(cst_phone1,'@R '+ ctry_fpatt) AS sphone, ;
>osh_date AS ship_date, osh_shpamt AS shipamt, osh_cspdel AS spdel, osh_ccod
>AS cod, shmth_abbr + carr_abbr AS shipvia ;
>FROM Temp1 t1 ;
>JOIN ord_ship shp ON t1.ord_id == shp.ord_id ;
>JOIN customer cst ON shp.cst_id == cst.cst_id ;
>JOIN postcode pos ON cst.post_id == pos.post_id ;
>LEFT JOIN country cty ON cst.ctry_id == cty.ctry_id ;
>LEFT JOIN shipmeth shm ON shp.shmth_id == shm.shmth_id ;
>LEFT JOIN carriers car ON shp.carr_id == car.carr_id ;
>ORDER BY ord_no, osh_no ;
>INTO CURSOR Temp2
>RETURN
>
>
>PROCEDURE PTBillPart
>SELECT t2.*, ;
>cst_no AS bcst_no, ALLT(cst_fname) + ' ' + cst_lname AS bcst_name, cst_add1
>AS bcst_add1, cst_add2 AS bcst_add2, ;
>ALLTRIM(city) + ' ' + ALLTRIM(st) + ', ' + ALLTRIM(post_code) +
>IIF(ctry_abbr = 'USA','',' '+ctry_abbr) AS baddrest, ;
>TRAN(cst_phone1,'@R '+ ctry_fpatt) AS bphone, ;
>TRAN(obl_ccno,'@R '+cc_pattern) AS ccno,
>LEFT(obl_ccexp,2)+'/'+RIGHT(obl_ccexp,2) AS ccexp, obl_ccauth AS ccauth,
>obl_amt ;
>FROM Temp2 t2 ;
> JOIN ord_bill bil ON t2.ord_id == bil.ord_id AND bil.obl_no = '1' ;
> LEFT JOIN credcard crc ON bil.cc_id == crc.cc_id ;
> LEFT JOIN paymeths pym ON bil.pmth_id == bil.pmth_id AND pay_abbr = "CC" ;
> JOIN customer cst ON bil.cst_id == cst.cst_id ;
> JOIN postcode pos ON cst.post_id == pos.post_id ;
> LEFT JOIN country cty ON cst.ctry_id == cty.ctry_id ;
>ORDER BY ord_no, osh_no ;
>INTO CURSOR Temp3
>RETURN
>
>
>PROCEDURE PTLinePart
>SELECT t3.*, ;
>orl_lineno, bko_qty, ship_qty, storprcode, prod_descr, orl_scost,
>orl_price, orl_exten ;
>FROM Temp3 t3 ;
> JOIN ord_dtls dtl ON dtl.ord_id == t3.ord_id AND dtl.osh_no == t3.osh_no ;
> JOIN products pro ON pro.prod_id == dtl.prod_id ;
>ORDER BY ord_no, t3.osh_no, orl_lineno ;
>INTO CURSOR Temp4
>RETURN