>Hilmar
>
>You might be interested in the following comparison
>
>The database being scanned has 50 fields so records sizes are quite large
>approx 59000 records
>
>The following code took 18 seconds
>
>select globalnew
>set order to tag created
>go top
>scan for accountno=accountno
>endscan
Apart from the caching issue: Did you SCAN FOR .T. on purpose?
What I would find more realistic is to work on a subset of the data, as follows:
select globalnew
set order to "created"
seek lnAccountNo
scan while accountno = lnAccountNo
endscan
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