Hola Hector!!!!

It was very nice meeting you in milwaukee.

Thanks for the pointer to the wiki. I decided not to trust sys(3054) quite a while ago - if things work fast, I just ignore what sys() says.

With that wiki article now I have a few other things to look at.

Thanks again!

Alex

>Alex,
>
>Take a look at the wiki web site:
>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~NonDiscriminatingIndex~VFP
>
>"The important thing is not to trust SYS(3054), but to measure the
>performance under real-world conditions. We found that opening a view
>with NODATA, which should theoretically only pull a few bytes of
>structure info over the network, was instead sucking multi-megabytes of
>data through the wires, slowing performance to a crawl! The reason was
>that Rushmore doesn't care about NODATA; it still pulls over the indexes
>it thinks it will need to optimize performance. Removing the tag on
>DELETED(), as well as a few other non-essential tags, made a huge
>difference. -- EdLeafe"
>
>
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Is this at all possible? I think I found out why my forms take so long to instantiate the first time I run them.
>>
>>Even though the nodata clause is used for bringing the views in the bizobjs online, some querying does take place (acording to vfp help).
>>
>>Is there a way to delay this until I REALLY need the view to be activated?
>>
>>That's where the title of this thread comes from.
>>
>>Some of my bizobjs use rather complicated views that take long to even return an empty cursor and I think this is what's causing my forms to appear sloppy.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Alex