Did you test this? I am not sure that is necessarily so. It certainly could be true depending on how the data is laid out.

How many rows in the table? Are you sure you want to do it this way?

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>LOCATE FOR .F.
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>This send me to the EOF() condition,
>then i must use a SKIP -1 for go into the last unfiltered record,
>but SKIP -1 is not optimizable, and then:
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>speed of not optimized
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>GO BOTTOM
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>is faster of
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>LOCATE FOR .F. && this is optimized
>SKIP -1        && this do a back scan loop
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>Thanks
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>Fabio