Seems unnecessary, but maybe a SELECT before the INDEX ON would make a difference?
>>The Help for INDEXSEEK() *does* say that an ORDER has to be set.
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>I had overlooked that; thanks, Jim.
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>But (big BUT <g>),
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>If I alter the first few lines of my sample code to:
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>CREATE DATABASE temp
>CREATE TABLE anytable (pkey I PRIMARY KEY, cChar C(6))
>INDEX ON cChar TAG cChar
>SET ORDER TO pkey
>SET MULTILOCKS ON
>CURSORSETPROP('Buffering',5)
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>The results are exactly the same! Also the same if the SET ORDER line is to tag "cChar."
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>So what goes on here?