>Michel,
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>I remember your threads of a few weeks ago. I do not know if this is relevant, but I came up with something interesting just now.
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>I have a log file that contained 78K records. I deleted like 55 K records from it. Mind you it is not indexed, etc, it is not even part of a DBC. Now it takes for ever (3 à 4 seconds to open, or to do anything with it). It is opened shared.
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>Marc

Does SET DELETED affect the load time in your case ? If so, I think i may know the solution.