Hi nadya

>Don't think, it would help. Actually, I think there was another problem there, which I didn't remember at the time, I wrote this message. When I connected our server through PCAnywhere, I got a message, that the server is running out of space. I ignored it and continued my work, but it might be a reason for such slowness.

was it a VFP error ? Executing a query on large tables with DELETED() index tags consumes much memory (Each indexnode of the table has to be loaded into memory before the actual query can be executed).

Walter,