>>yes and it made the date query a bit better.
>>The name query however is still terrible. The name field is c40_01 and I created a tag in the same way on the server drive, but its still very very slow.
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>>There isnt anyting I need to do to the views AFTER creating the tags is there?
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>You can try using SYS(3054, 11) to see if the tags are being used when the view is queried.

I put a button on the form and did a ? sys(3054,11) after the local view refreshed and it said "SQL Showplan is enabled with joint optimization".

CG