>>>>1. I am accessing the data locally.
>>>>2. The total number of records is 7,127.
>>>>3. The speed is approximately 17 seconds with this data set.
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>>>Did you tried to delete tags all and add them one by one by adding a new condition? 17 sec. seems too long for me. It should be 1-3 sec. Did you try it on different machines?
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>>>>>Did you access this table locally or through the network? What's the number of records in a table and what speed do you get?
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>>The last thing I tried was to create a simple index which would return 20000 records. This test CDX contains no other indexes other that the one index. I ran a test on this one index and it still took 27+ seconds on my machine.
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>I'm out of ideas :( Have you tried Walter's suggestion?

I tried that and it took about the same amount of time as the original SELECT command. Thanks for your ideas. We've clearly reached a limitation of what FoxPro can do.