Hi Jim,

have you thought abaout the different ways Seek() and Rushmore operate ?
Your arguments are valid for seek(), but if you have a very large table, which gets written to (into cdx-mapped fields!) and subsequently queried on those fields, rushmore reads the whole index again, since it is marked "invalid". This should be much worse if operating on a fragmented .cdx. The same argument should be checked if querying a large table NOT on cdx-based criteria - then VFP has to read the table in sequential order.

just my 2'c

thomas