>>>>> ... 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?
>Michel,
>
>.T. = .T. doesn't look at any data in any table so optimization is irrelavent.

Ok, thanks.