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From: nd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Naranker Dulay)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: 4D Searching
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Date: 6 Feb 91 16:28:21 GMT
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  In multi-user mode, does 4D minimise the amount of data read from the
fileserver in order to perform searches?
  For example when searching on a single (non-indexed, non-related) field, does
4D transfer only the values of that one field?  If not, would indexing the
field make a difference?
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