Thanks...discovered that with some investigation here and in other areas on the thread...

Joe

>That's not true. You don't send a 500 Mb data file through the network to retrieve a single 10K record. VFP just sends a piece of data with some records before and after the one you have requested. Of course, this process is not as optimized as with C/S, but in no way VFP sends the 500 Mb file