This is a loaded question. *s* If you have an index on the field for which you're doing the LOCATE, then SEEK is the fastest of all. For finding only one record, LOCATE would be faster than SQL, because LOCATE will stop as soon as it finds a record that meets your condition. SQL is intended to retrieve a set of records, and will therefore look at the entire table. Also, without an index LOCATE isn't optimizable, but then neither is the SQL.

>I expect the table to grow pretty large - over 1 million records. In general...what is faster - a LOCATE or SELECT SQL statement for locating a single record?
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>Thanks,
>Doug