>I have a large table that I need to count the number of records on a regular basis. I was using - Count to nRecords - but it got to be too slow. So I created an index on Deleted() and am now using the following code. It is now instant.
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>Does anyone see a problem with this? TIA
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>Set Deleted Off
>Select TableName
>Count To nDel For Deleted()
>Goto Bottom
>nCnt=RecNo()-nDel
>Set Deleted On

If you want the number of undeleted records you could also take the difference of RECCOUNT() - nDel. No big deal since this only saves you 1 line of code.