Jim,

>If VFP has a record set that is small enough to fit in memory it may not create an actual file on disk. Why not use an updatable view instead and then you know what you've got?

When I go to New: View, Remote View and Connection are disabled, so I can not create a view visually. I tried to find in Help the correct syntax of creating a view, but can not find it or it asks to insert another disk. How can I create a simple view based on just one table, e.g.
right now I have :
use tablename again alias BldMstr in 0 shared
set filter to MyFilterCondition
go top

It runs very slowly...

I thought, that view could be more convenient and runs faster, but I haven't much experience with views.