>>Does a user need FULL CONTROL permissions to pack a table?
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>At the operating system level, read, write, and delete permissions should be enough. At least, I suspect that delete would have to be included, since the table is copied to another file (the non-deleted records, that is), and then the old file is deleted.
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>A user also needs exclusive access; no other user may be using the table at the same time.
It's the delete permissions I am wary of.
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