>>Grid itself cannot slow a query. Moreover, grid can make slow query to go faster (from user's standpoint). That's because grid does not need to all fields to be retrieved. In many cases it's enough to retrieve primary-foreign key(s) only.
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>Hi, Ed!
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>Yet my experience, repeated many times, is that I can display info faster in a browse than in a grid.
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>Peter

It's probably because browse can show filtered cursor, and grid expects to get non-filtered recordsource.