Divide et impera:
select * from mytable where ino_acct = nAcct into cursor Tmp1
select * from Tmp1 where !empty(ino_total) into cursor Tmp2
Perhaps this works equally well for both scenarios.
Hilmar.
>After doing some more tests I see with smaller files it is faster for me to use the "#" operator that is optimizable rather than the empty() function. This is going to cause me some huge headaches.
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>The situation I explained in the previous post took over a minute when using the "#" and less than 3 seconds with the empty() function.
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>However with a smaller file of about 500 records the results are immediate with the "#" and it takes over 7 seconds with empty() function.
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>Since I have over a 1000 customers using this app that can have varying sizes of files I'm not real sure how to handle this..
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>Any thoughts or insight would be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks again,
>Paul
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