>I thank you for the suggestions. I currently have tried all of them. The best one that I found, which worked for this purpose, was from both Dore and Ken. The question that I have is there a way to keep everything in the same table without having to copy to a new table? Basically, the process everything is going through is via a REINDEXing program.
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>Weekly, the records of this table (386,548 records)are being reindexed, but many of them are duplicate invoice no. (i.e. J123451 has 6 of the same records). I want to keep the first records and delete all proceeding records of the same invoice number. While I wish we could have a candidate key to prevent this, it's not the company's interest.
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>Just for my knowing, would this be the most optimized process of clearing out deleted records?
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>Thanks again for the help!!

use table in 0
use table again alias dupes in 0
select dupes
set order to primarykey
select table
set relation to primarykey into dupes
delete for recno() != recno("dupes")
set relation to
use in dupes