I am not familiar with the WISH...does he want to be able to set whether or not a record is actually purged when it is deleted?

Joe

>In addition, one could indicate support for Walter M's recent WISH for a TABLE "property" to indicate how DELETED() records are desired to be handled.
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>Cheers,
>
>Jim N
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>>Well, you can issue a PACK command.
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>>You need exclusive use of the table for this and you will purge all records marked for deletion.
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>>If this is not good, you can blank out the data before deleting the record (in case the issue is sensitivity of information).
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>>You can also blank records and re-use them if you would like...
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>>Depends on your situation...
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>>Joe
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>>>hi,
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>>>anybody can help me..
>>>
>>>I want to delete a record but i dont want to mark it as deleted i want to delete it permanetly...
>>>
>>>TIA