>>All this does raise the question, though, why is the logic processing of
>>an SQL Select command so much more inefficient than an IF command?
>
>What do you mean by this? Do you have an example?

This is what he means, I think:

IF .F. AND DontEval()
	? "Don't print"
ENDIF

FUNCTION DontEval
	? "Don't Print"
ENDif