>>>If you need to remove the entirely identical records then what is wrong with :
>>>
>>>select * dist into newtable
>>>then rename and reindex?
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>>That's an interesting idea. Few fields in the table should not be checked (RecNum is one for example). I can select into cursor, zap the original table and append from this cursor.
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>>I'll think about it.
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>You would not be able to delete any records whose PK is referenced from another table if you have defined any persistent relations [RI]

Thanks, Mark. We don't have persistent relations, so we should be OK. I'm also thinking about doing this elimination at the prior step, so select distinct * would work. Originally I was thinking about doing it in De-Duper, that would be much harder.

Thanks to you and Yuri.