Keith,
You may want to try an Index on deleted(). If you environment settings
have the value set. It's worth a try anyway.

Be sure to start including NOFILTER if you are fully optimizing your
result sets. It saves alot of time hunting down bugs that will pop
up once the results are fully optimized.



>>If SET DELETED is ON, you need an index on Deleted() on both table for a full optimization.
>>
>>HTH
>
>Uhhh, no ;-) The file has no deleted records,
>and my problem is not partial optimization,
>it is *no* optimization for two fields,
>Fed_TaxId and Tax_Sufx. It does do partial
>optimization for the Code field.
>
>Thanks for the response though...
>
> ...kt