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Selecting X TOP records
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Am I correct in assuming that when you use SQL Select, the TOP syntax is not optimized for an index?

I have a table MYORDERS with field ORDERNO that has index tag.

When I try:
select top 10 * from MYORDERS order by ORDERNO
The query takes considerable time. I can sort of "see" that VFP selects all records and then selects 10 from the top. Is there a way to make this query run faster?

Thank you.
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