>Ok, I have a small internal application that I recompiled in VFP8. Mostly, no problems. BUT, I have a SELECT which is *really* slow in VFP8, and fast in VFP7.
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Are you sure you have all your settings the same. Check SET DELETED, SET EXACT, SET ANSI and SET COLLATE, at least.

If that doesn't turn anything up, try using SYS(3054) to see whether the optimization is different in the two versions.

Tamar