>Nadya,
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>Are you sure it's the indexes that delay the append ?
>I would rather look into (1) the Record Validation rule and maybe (2) any triggers that are fired.
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>You can temporarily disable record validation and triggers if you are comfortable that the data you are appending is ok.
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>Personally, I would not disable any. Just in case.
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That's true too. Table has Record validation and field validations. I'm not sure, how to disable them in APPEND FROM (just checked Help, if I missed NOVALIDATE clause, but unfortunately, there is no such clause in this command).