>Hi David,
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>Basically it's the same technique, applied a little differently. The concept of making a copy of the data before you attempt to remove the deleted rows is the major point here. PACK can't handle that.
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>Only problem I see with what you suggest is the possible "bloat" of the DBC with all the additional (albeit temporary) tables. I might consider copying the files to a new database, possibly also maintaining the links -- somehow. Anybody else have some thoughts here?
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SDT handles the task quite nicely, supporting both .DBCs and free tables.