>Stephen,
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>2 - things
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>1) Much has come out lately about how tags on deleted() can actually hurt - and rarely help - most operations

Jim Nelson said likewise. I guess that I missed that thread! I always run with deleted set on, and a tag for it.


>2) Since I have SET DELETED OFF - Rushmore would not, could not use the tag anyway - it would be irrelevant

>FYI - this data is for statistical analysis - that's why it's on a local drive - it's 15 MILLION records - not 1.5, though I've recently narrowed that down to about 10 MILLION - not sure what cdx file was since it's been deleted - it was pushing 100M ... dbf was 1.7G
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>thanks,
>KEn
>

Pushing that 100 meg through your network if it was off a server would have been tough. Having it local makes it snappy!

TTFN.