>George,
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>>>LOCATE is faster than GO TOP when a filter is invloved because LOCATE is optimizable and GO TOP is not.
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>>Thanks Jim (and Fred too). Filters?? Who uses filters any more?< bg >.
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>>This does bring up a question, however. How can a LOCATE without an expression be optimizable? If there's no expression to optimize...
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>LOCATE respects the SET FILTER clause. It is the filter that get's optimized
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Hi Walter,

Yeah, that's what JimB pointed out. However, as I mentioned elsewheres, I can find no circumstance that would allow its use in place of GO TOP.