>How can I delete and take out the data in my table.dbf? I have this code and it only marked the data to be deleted, but did not remove it. What am I missing?
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>Please help.
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>Thanks,
>Sam
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>

>DELETE FROM testdata ;
>WHERE testdata.serialnum = m.lcSerialNum AND ;
>	testdata.testdatewrk = m.ldDateWrk
>

Deleted records stay in the table until you issue the PACK command. You should NOT do the PACK every time you delete, for the following reasons:

This is slow, and therefore inefficient - especially for large tables.

This will not work in multi-user environments, since you need exclusive access to the table.

Instead, you should SET DELETED ON to hide deleted records. Do the PACK approximately once a month, when nobody is using the database.

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