>Are you sure that is the case down to locking strategies executed on the table ? In other commands different lock strategies exist between xBase and SQL...
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>>There is no difference between DELETE FOR and SQL DELETE. Pack does erase the file as part of its working. As Tore said - don't pack except as an infrequent maintenance thing.

Hi Thomas

From the scope of this thread - whether DELETE FOR or SQL DELETE is used will make no difference.