>>>>Hi Nicholas,
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>>>>>BTW I just checked. One table in this system has 59 indexes.
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>>>>The project I'm working on had close to 100 in one table before we started optimizing them away. <g> The number of indexed affected the time it took to run the form, because every tag results in a 4 KB block that needs to be read when the table is opened for the first time.
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>>>Yes
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>>>if my budget was open there would be plenty of work. Unfortunately its not and I've seen several examples of my correcting something at point A causing something to fall off at point B. :-(
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>>http://ndragan.com/pv/captain.html
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>The real problem is it begins to distort your mind and you go "native"

I'm living with that problem for years.

Oh, you mean programming-wise... yep, it's a two-edged sword. On one side, you want to understand what your predecessors were doing. On the other, if that was so good, you wouldn't be cleaning after them. Tricky; you need to keep perspective all the time.

I once had a project like that in front of me, and was very adamant on how long will it take and cost - no easy way out of hand woven say/gets. The customer was seriously convinced it was a matter of a few days to spruce it up - where nothing short of full rewrite would save the app.