>>Closing is only slow, if you've made changes that were still in the write-buffer.

Over a WAN, I have found both opening and closing tables to be very slow...



>Hi John,
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>>Remember, VFP's slowest operations are opening and closing tables....
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>Not per se. Opening is slow, if you have an index on DELETED() and SET DELETED is ON, or you activated an index in the USE command. Closing is only slow, if you've made changes that were still in the write-buffer.
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>Christof