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DELETED() and Rushmore
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00262005
Message ID:
00262101
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>Hi Colin,
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>>I've inherited an app that for most of its tables has index tags with a FOR !DELETED() filter expression. Is this beneficial or no?
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>Depends on how you use them. For Rushmore these indexes are non-existant. IOW, only SEEK is able to make use of this index, and of course SKIP or SCAN WHILE constructs.
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>Christof

Do you mean that Rushmore doesn't use the index at all or that it just ignores the filter expression?
Colin Magee
Team Leader, Systems Development
Metroland Media Group Ltd.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

cmagee@metroland.com

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