Jean Laeremans wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:13 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account >> _Stephen, >> >> You picked the wrong hill to die on with this latest argument/stance. >> You're just plain wrong. But to be fair, as you stated, you're talking >> about SQL queries only (right?) so that's not exactly the same as the >> rest of us are talking about...perhaps. If there is no index, a table >> scan occurs, but we all knew that. You can't bash VFP when you read the >> truth like Jean says above. Try something else. ;-) > > Oh forgot to mention took the time to find the most effective > retrieval technique and found out that in general xbase commands were > several factors faster than SQL.
Yep...SEEKS and SET ORDER TO and SCAN WHILEs kick ass when optimizations realized! Anders Altberg (or perhaps wOOdy) said it best awhile back--something kinda like you did--that xbase outperforms SQL in many instances. But don't tell anyone....it's a secret. <eg> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
