>I mean that it's not required to return to old record, recall it and change primary key. I don't mean that it's not doable, it's not required. Normally, file size will be the only difference and pretty much irrelevant one, as long as you can PACK tables on some scheduled basis.


A developer on this conference recently mentioned that one of his apps always tries to open the tables exclusively when it is first started. If it can, it PACKs the tables. If not, it just starts normally.

That seems like a good scheme to me. From the users point of view, all they have to do is shut down all the terminals and then restart one on some regular basis.

Peter Robinson