Mark,

Seek is faster than locate because it doesn't have the overhead of rushmore. The larger the table gets, the faster SEEK gets compared to locate.

Walter,

>If I have a table that has 5 fields that if combined create a "primary key", is it faster to use LOCATE to find a record, or SEEK.
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>The 5 fields are not all characters fields (one is date and one is numeric).
>
>Regards