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>>>>I meant to write recordsource=''. I tried it a few years ago, it caused all kinds of problems. My method have never failed.
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>>>Both methods have pros and cons. Zap could lead to destructive and irreversible results while = "" would only effect display. I only mean it's not an uppercased "NOT" to use thing.
>>>Cetin
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>>I have used the zap solution for years, and I have never had any trouble with it so far. I use it with both for small tables, and for large tables, all are DBFs. The largest I use regularly has more than 5 million records and a size of 950MB.
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>Tore,
>I don't believe you're zapping and then refilling with data those tables. Did you really zap and then append from somewhere else that 950Mb table???
>Cetin

No, I select some records from the 950MB into a temp cursor. Then I select a subset from that cursor into the same cursor, in a loop. When the loop is done, I zap the main cursor, and append from teh temp cursor.