Hi Oleksiy,

Sounds like you're opening a view not a table or your table has a large number of deleted records at the beginning of the file and SET DELETED is ON.

Regards,
Gavin...

>> Why?, opening the table should not be a problem
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>Ooooh!
>It's a big problem in VFP. When I opening a table VFP reads all data from the table to memory for some reasons. If I have a 100,000 records (small number for normal DB) it's becomes a problem in VFP.
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>> how can you write to a file without opening it?
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>I did not tell "without opening". I told "without reading data back".