>You're directing my attention to the fact that Timothy Bowen referred to a LOCATE, probably because the table is not ordered. I have all too easy assumed an indexed order. I've just tested SET ORDER TO 0 DESC. There's no error, but the keyword DESC appears to have no effect. Pity.
Probably it should be a rare case where no index is used.
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