>A former programmer at my company had applied an alltrim to an indexed field. When I removed the alltrim the report that uses the field ran several times faster. This alltrim seemingly nullified the index on the field. Is there any explaination to this?
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>Thanks for all replies.
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>Mike
FoxPro works with fixed length fields. If you try to make a varible width field, it will actually slow down.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer