Hi Tamar,

I also found discovered that, so I sent this reply to Sergey, with a CC to Nadya:

Hi Sergey,

you are absolutely right, of course. The documentation for the LIKE operator is terrible, you really have to dig hard to find it. I have no experience with SQL server, so I tried the syntax which seemed most likely to me, LIKE 'X*' in stead of LIKE 'X%'.

You don't have to tell me, I know that I really should study the devcon papers and notes more carefully. :-)

>>>My tests showed, much to my surprise, that LIKE was not optimized.
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>>Our tests showed partial optimization for LIKE clause and full optimization for =. Now, I thought I read somewhere that VFP 9 has full optimizable LIKE, but I don't remember, where I read it, so do not know, if it's true.
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>VFP 9 can now fully optimize LIKE with a "%" wildcard at the end of the comparison string.
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>Tamar