>>>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.
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>In this case, I think it sould be a little faster:
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>ldDate3 = GOMONTH(ldDate2,1)-1
>COUNT FOR BETWEEN(ADDDATE, ldDate2, ldDate3) TO lnMessage
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>Because ldDate3 formula will be evaluated only once and not for each record.

Is it really the case? I mean, the evaluation per record. I thought that it's only at first just to get the range.