The UV keyword REQUIRE.SELECT makes this a possibility.  On the Mentor and 
Ultimate systems I cut my teeth on, if the 1st select returned zero records, 
then the second select would select against the entire file.  Once I moved to 
UV, and learned about REQUIRE.SELECT, then breaking out SELECT statements made 
more sense.

--Ron P.

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Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:27 AM
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Subject: RE: [U2] broken up SELECTS


It's something I've always done over the last twenty years. The select
processor in theory should apply optimisiation but I always break my
statements down to reduce the working record set and to increase readability.

Makes very little difference on smaller amount of records but makes a huge
difference when record counts get into the millions, especially on distributed
files or selects which work on a mixture of non-indexed and indexed fields.
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