Checking the RECNO() and RECOUNT() only touch the .dbf. It does not guarantee the .fpt data is up to date.

>Hi Craig,
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>I turned off the write cache on the data sever last night (more accurately, I allocated all the cache to be read cache - that is still active; I also have the option of disabling the cache entirely). This is on the array controller (it is a RAID 5 setup). I still seem to have some delay.
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>I am now thinking of also trying what someone else suggested, that is, closing the 2 tables in question between "polling" of the queue. This happens every 3 seconds (could go back to 5 or 10 if I had to). Was a little worried that that was a lot of file opening activity but then again, this is 10 years after first implemented so OS's are a whole lot more robust. Any thoughts on that?
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>Also, not sure what you meant in your sentance below (re the memo fields)? Could you expand?
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>Thanks,
>Albert