>>>>Is there any way to count records in a buffered (mode 5) view without moving the record pointer?
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>>>Check new WITH (buffering) option of Select-SQL. I'm not sure how does it work internally and it is a slow option, be aware.
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>>I'm curious though... why can't the table header be used for count operations? Doesn't the header have an accurate count of records?
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>Table header counts all physical records, and deleted are included there. Therefore RECCO() function returns all records.

Good point.