>Hi,
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>I have over 6,000 records marked for deletion in a certain table and when I tried to perform a SEEK on this table it's slow (a second or 2).
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>Are there any Tips/Tricks for speeding up the SEEK operation on a table containing alot of deleted records (besides doing a PACK)?
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SEEK takes you to the first record in the table that matches the key in the specified order; if that record is deleted, it has to proceed to the next record that matches. This can be time-consuming with lots of deleted records, especailly where the current display order is not the SEEK order (eg you seek in a different index than the current ORDER.)

You're basically scrod.

>I've tried adding an Index on "NOT DELETED()", setting a FILTER, issuing "SET DELETED ON" and using "INDEXSEEK()" to prevent the pointer being moved (in the hopes of speeding up repetative seeks).
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>Thanks in advance,
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>- Aaron.