I limited a table to a few records by using SET KEY TO. I then did a SQL select on the table with no WHERE clause restricting the select statement because I assumed that the select would respect the SET KEY TO command. To my surprise, I got a cursor based on the whole table. Nevertheless, the table still obeyed the the SET FILTER TO when browsing and using navigational commands.

This was in FWP2.6 and I tried the same thing in VFP6 SP3 and got the same result. My immediate response was to limit the select statement to the same criteria that SET KEY TO used.

Question. I assumed that *all* commands respected SET KEY TO, SET FILTER TO etc. Seemingly SQL-Select doesn't. Is this correct? Why is there a difference between Fox's own SQL-Select statement and it's own navigation type commands in it's respect of SET KEY TO, SET FILTER TO ?

This obviously isn't a problem. I was just surprised at the result using SQL-Select.

Any advice much appreciated.

TIA