Nadya,

The thread/message you point to says it all, and from the guru of the .DBF/.DBC yet!

You don't need to do a pack type of operation to "optimize" a table to a specific index. A COPY will help you with that. But as others have said, a .DBC presents a different scenario.

JimN


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>Cindy,
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>This thread seems to be an interesting one: Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax Re: Is the Pack command really dangerous? Thread #451943 Message #452295. I didn't find the thread I mentioned.
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>I also like the idea of selecting into table order by Primary key.
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>Just curious, does Stonefield have a demo version with code included? I guess, not :)
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