>>Oh, I see. Should closing the file (as we did, in the tests) flush the Windows cache?
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>No it doesn't
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>> And, is there a way to disable the Windows cache? Or is FLUSH FORCE the only option here?
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>There's Win API that allows to flush Windows buffers FlushFileBuffers http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364439.aspx


Would a select * from table help ? Because Select always reads from disk . I.e. If the data is there in the select cursor then The data must be present on disk ....