George,

Pardon my English, but that would be awfully stupid of SQL - to run the Date function for every record in the input. What makes you so sure it would do so??

Enquiring minds need to know.

regards,
Jim N

>>Is there any optimization difference in the following:
>>
>>SELECT FIELD FROM TABLE WHERE FIELDDATE=DATE() INTO CURSOR TEMP
>>
>>OR
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>>ldDate=DATE()
>>SELECT FIELD FROM TABLE WHERE FIELDDATE=ldDate INTO CURSOR TEMP
>
>Michel,
>
>I'm not sure about differences in optimization, but the latter query should execute faster. The reason being that the date function will have to be called and it will have to return its value for every record in the table. In the latter case, it simply a straight comparison.
>
>George