Hi Sunshine,

In order to speed up your query you have to let VFP to use Rushmore. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fox7help/html/dgUsing_Rushmore_to_Speed_Data_Access.asp for how it works. To make your select Rushmore optimazable you've to:
- create index on 'web_exp' field in the 'student' table
- Replace Empty() function in the query because it's not optimazable

select courseid, classid, studentid, birthdate, firstname, middlei, ;
       lastname, address, city, state, zip ;
  from student ;
  where web_exp = SPACE( LEN(web_exp )) ;
  into table c:\tempweb

Now it should be much faster.

>I have the following code that takes forever to run. Can anyone suggest ways of speeding up the process?
>
>select courseid,classid,studentid,birthdate,firstname,middlei,lastname,address,city,state,zip;
>from student;
>where empty(web_exp);
>into table c:\tempweb
>
>open database hunter
>use vwhe_card
>append from c:\tempweb
>
>*!* want to do this later just in case the above didn't work
>select student
>set filter to empty(web_exp)
>replace web_exp with date() all
>
>I've also tried:
>use student
>set filter to empty(web_exp)
>
>open database hunter
>use vwhe_card
>append from student
>
>The database has over 390000 records. For test data, I'm looking for 42 records and it's taking so long. Should I set an index?
>
>I would appreciate any help and thanks in advance!
>Sunshine