>My bad.
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>If I have 4 million records and need to perform record level updates, could it make sense to split the file(s) and have mulitple instances of VFP (or a VFP App)perform the operation(s) on a multi-proccesor machine? Is there a possible performance gain?

I really couldn't say for sure. It's possible I suppose but it would depend on the OS. My guess is that sometimes the OS would split the work between the different processors and sometimes it wouldn't.

Maybe you should think about going to a SQL server backend where all this would be handled for you and the more processors you have the better.