Perhaps if you know you aren't in for big integers, you can consider BINTOC(...,2)



>Hi Mark,
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>>I changed all four index expressions to BINTOC( ... ), reindexed, refreshed the view in file explorer and expected the CDX file to be smaller, but it wasn't--exactly the same # of bytes.
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>An integer takes four bytes in an index and the table. BINTOC() creates a 4-character string which also takes 4 bytes. You can't compress an integer index any further.
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>Christof