Kevin,

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>Let's compare:
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>APPEND FROM
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>Records/Time
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>17/0.040
>40/0.010
>15/0.010
>22/0.010
>16/0.010
>22/0.010
>31/0.010
>
>SCATTER/INSERT
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>17/0.040
>40/0.010
>15/0.020
>22/0.010
>16/0.020
>22/0.010
>31/0.010
>
>Do you tink that's massive difference?
>

Am I reading this right ? Number on left represent record counts ? If yes then testing with so few low reccounts and total time taking 14secs ??? Well compared to (was done in 1990's) from multiple 80Mb+ tables in fox2x doing 'contains' searches at most in 30 secs on a Novell network with 1Mb RAM 80286 boxes that's really slow. Do not use VFP.

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>That will surely depend on the design of the app, maybe if a full blown OO design was adopted there wouldn't be so much need for data-intensive tasks, if there was no way around it then the back-end SP's could handle it.
>
>Kev

Well I thought I made a OO design but who knows.
Cetin