Larry,

>Very interesting, however I question whther I would set EXACT always to OFF.
>Having EXACT on, works especially if you are doing an alltrim() ==
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My point is that "==" causes the EXACT setting to be ignored...

>By placing the alltrim() in it slows down performance dramatically, what I have noticed using (3054,11) Rushmore in NONE .
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A good reason to avoid alltrim() it if possible.

>We noticed tremendous performance degregation, with file sizes of 25K records plus
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>We do a bunch of locate(), filtering, sum, seek() as well as SQL Select .
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>Finally, we found out that one of our ex-programmers who left a year ago had not checked for Rushmore AT ALL, and our app. is a monster to say the least.
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I hope you can kill the monster! *grin*

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>Bye the way have you seen IncredeMail? If so how do you update their contact tables?
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I've never heard of it...sorry.

>Thanks for the info. Have a great weekend.
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You too!