>Hi -
>ANy suggestions on increasing peformance when applying a filter to a large table. Its seems to be taking forever.
>Unfortunately we can can't put the filter expression into the index.
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>Any ideas please
>
>Thanks,
>
>Larry
If you filter a small subset of data from a large file, the filter will be slow, especially if you combine it with a grid.
Use a view instead. The view is like an updatable query, i.e., TableUpdate() will update the tables the view is based on.
Hilmar.
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