>>Although, in almost every situation, SQL commands will be faster than going through a do while loop....
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>Not true...SQL commands are not necessarily faster. It depends on;
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>1) The amount of data
>2) Proper indexing
>3) Amount of virtual memory on the PC
>4) How the SQL statement is structured
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>At a previous job, I had an 11,000,000 record table. SQL came to
>a CRAWL when using this table. SEEK and SCAN were *MUCH* faster.

Okay, granted, your design has to be sound (ie. indexing) and the SQL statement has to be optimized...and it depends what you are trying to do...but, I haven't found too many cases where an **optimized** SQL statement has been noticably slower than SEEK and SCAN...I haven't worked with 11,000,000 record tables (at least not in FoxPro), so I can't really comment on that situation...

Joe