Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!uncmed!uncmed.med.unc.edu!danielg From: danielg@uncmed.med.unc.edu Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Avoiding SET FILTER TO command Message-ID: <472@uncmed.med.unc.edu> Date: 27 Jul 89 20:21:14 GMT Sender: news@uncmed.med.unc.edu Reply-To: danielg@uncmed.med.unc.edu () Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine Lines: 16 Dear dBASE friends, I have a problem to which I *know* there is a simple answer. I have to locate a record in my database by two fields. I have tried SET FILTER TO the first, then using a FIND command to pinpoint my record, but as you might expect, this is ** much too slow ***. Please post, or e-mail to me. Thanks. Disclaimer: My opinion means | 'If you only knew how much I was holding nothing, but His means | back, you would commend me' everything. | - Charles Spurgeon, 19th century danielg@uncmed.med.unc.edu | evangelist (on humor in preaching)