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> The Skip Y syntax forces the first Y to be compared etc but does not
> display them. (in case you are wondering).

Adam is this your experience?
my observations are that FIRST 10 SKIP 1000000 returns records in the
bracket 1000000->1000010 without doing any work at all on the records
0->1000000
Alan

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> There may be some exceptions, but this is what I have observed.
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> Adam