Should have clarified "when you sort *multiple* fields that are indexed".  I 
still haven't heard anyone tell me that either UV or UD now support more than 
one indexed field.  Let me know if this has changed...

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On 24/12/10 15:50, Robert Houben wrote:
> SQL will beat MV every time when you sort fields that are indexed.

Huh? Ime (UniVerse), that's wrong.

Indexes are b-trees, which you can walk, and the contents of the index are 
sorted. afaik you would have been right about PI, but that's long dead. Dunno 
about UniData, but UV is a lot of sites where MV will equal SQL ... :-)

>  For direct reads, MV seems to have a slight advantage.  Inserts and
> updates that affect indexed fields are slower in SQL (inserts are
> painfully slow if you fail to size your SQL table well, but try
> "inserting" millions of records into a file with a modulo of 1...)

Been there, done that. But that's why most places use dynamic files nowadays. 
:-)

Cheers,
Wol
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