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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Windows 2000 Server
I agree - I would go structural now.
NS has made more work for me.
Back when this was done, computers were slower and any differences in performance may have been much more significant.
Don't know if maybe earlier versions of FoxPro made NS indexes more attractive then -
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>WHAT?
>How many APPEND's you have in the application?
>If you change APPEND BLANK->REPLACE to INSERT INTO the index will be updated when the INSERT finish its job.
>Even if you didn't use nonstructural compound index you have to REINDEX after the APPEND, so no speed gain.
>If that INDEX is opened again no speed gain because it is reindexed automaticaly.
>If you use structural compound index your life will be much easier.
>No need to care if the index is updated -> it is.
>It will be used for Optimization (I am not sure about if nonstructural compound index could be used for this, because I never used them).
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