Hi Jim,

So, in essence, this becomes an optimal solution for a table that has a lot of transient records? Like, for example, an open ledger period? Where you are neever going to get more than n records but the I/O will be high before the period is closed.


>By recycling the deleted records the file will grow until it has that magic number of records, then it will no longer grow anymore. A defrag of the disk will put the file contiguous. The recycling of the deleted records will maintain the contiguous nature of the file and prevent further fragmentation from being introduced.