>I'd say that we get excellent mileage out of VFP's primitive "optimization" stratgey, especially given the simplicity of it all.
I agree. Most of the time, I am quite content with the results.
>The other strategies require significant maintenance and can also get in the way in special cases. Indeed, if VFP had other optimization capabilites (other than index-based) I'd guess that it wouldn't have the wide usage it has today.
One big advantage with VFP is that it is relatively cheap (as compared to Oracle, for instance! - which I used for the comparison).
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