>Jim, I never said that the SET FILTER / RELATION / SKIP and SEEK commands were a poor per se. What I did say, in my original response to Walter, was that these commands are easy for a developer to rely upon at the expense of not learning SQL and designing apps which can be scaled.

I agree with you in regards to the SET FILTER issue, but I find that the others are useful even in a C/S environment when woirking with result sets.