I hate to be a bringer-of-gloom, but I found I had to reboot the computer to clear everything out of memory. Restarting VFP wasn't enough.

Hope someone else has a good method for you.....

Barbara

>Hello,
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>I'm trying to benchmark some queries and views, but of course, once I run them, subsequent runs are fed from memory, so my timings are quite off.
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>I have managed to somehow force vfp or windows to dump its data from memory by running another query that returns about 100,000 records (i.e. select * from requests where iid % 5 = 1).
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>This, of course, takes some time (which I don't have a lot of right now).
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>Is there a way to flush the buffers and have vfp work on clean memory other than this or restarting vfp?
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>Thanks!
>
>Alex