>Claudio,
>
>I get the same result as you. Moreover, if I test with 10,000 records the
>result query is extended as expected: 17, 273, 529, 785, 1041, 1297, ...,
>9745. This is very weird. I would report this to MS if I were you, either
>we're missing something obvious or it's a bug. BTW I am VFP6/SP3 on Win98SE.

Known, I'm sure. Note that those are 0+17, 256+17, 512+17, etc. I think it's a collation sequence bug -- are you doing something besides SET COLLATE TO MACHINE? Are you running SP4?