Are you saying this is still slow?!! Turn off your antivirus :>)

>>Hi Renoir,
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>>Note how long will take to do

SELECT * FROM data\Employee.dbf INTO CURSOR temp NOFILTER

Multiply that time by .7 ( 70% records you extract with your query). That should give you an estimate of the min time your query could take.
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>Hey Sergey,
>
>Cool. Yeah, that's also kind of the bad news; it's really not going to run much faster. I think I'm going to have to revamp how I handle the data when the form intializes.
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>Renoir