Hi Hector,

I am not using SQL server. It was Oracle in one company and VFP in another company. I have the client side programming same for both. But I got the picture now. Thanks for the response.

Regards

>I assume you are talking to SQL Server. If that is the case I don't think you will see performance decrease as the table grows.
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>FWIW, here is another way of getting the structure of your table
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>set fmtonly on
>select * from mytable
>set fmtonly off
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>I don't know if this will increase/decrease performance. But if you open a view with NODATA this is what VFP send to SQL Server.
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