>While he does specially say that Rushmore is in the engine, he does say it isn't either. So unless I can find a reference somewhere else, I'm going to continue to assume that Rushmore is in the engine of the VFP ODBC drivers.
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I just tested by creating a connection using the VFP driver to a VFP database, and, given the time difference between optimizable and non-optimizable queries, the driver is is definitely using Rushmore.

You're right.