>>1. Build temp table from table definition
>>2. Import new data provided from outside source
>>3. Index (answering your question, yes, on fresh data)
>>4. Rename old table
>>5. Rename temp table to bring it "live"
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>Seems to me that this may be faster (and close to what Ken was asking for) if you changed the process to:
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>1. Build temp table from definition
>2. Index temp table (define indices before import)
>3. Import new data (Fox updates all indexes simultaneously in background)
>4. Rename old table
>5. Rename temp table to live table name
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>This is untested, just brainstorming, and may be considerably slower, not faster, for all I know. In fact, I may have read tips from various experts (Goley?, Hennig?) that my suggestion is the bad way, and Ken's process is the fast way...
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>Will be very interested in your reactions...
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>Rich.

I think that a table with no index will load faster than a table with index. That is why I reccommend to lose the index add the data then add the index back.