>>Are you doing this on a cursor that contains only the messages for the specified user or on the whole dbf?
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>There are others condition that I remove which will only takes the current forum, the current users, etc.
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>Yes, it's on the main table.

In this case, I think it sould be a little faster:

ldDate3 = GOMONTH(ldDate2,1)-1
COUNT FOR BETWEEN(ADDDATE, ldDate2, ldDate3) TO lnMessage

Because ldDate3 formula will be evaluated only once and not for each record.

Vlad