>>>> ... WHERE ... AND .T. = .T. ...
>>>>
>>>>This force VFP to create a temp table for the cursor and will speed up your grid display.
>>>
>>>I use the field AS fieldname which also forces a cursor.
>>>
>>>SELECT *,0 AS DUMMY FROM ...
>>Michel,
>>
>>That works too.
>>
>>Except if the result strucutre is critical, then WHERE .T. = .T. doesn't add a field to the result. NOFILTER is the best way in my book (if we are talking VFP 5.0).
>
>Thanks, but is .T.=.T. still fully optimizable?

Yes, if you have an index on the .T. field. :)

Vlad