>So, if I'm not using SDT, what is the best way to handle "the pack". (The fact that I'm a huge fan of the Packers notwithstanding.) Say you delete records, eventually you want to clean them up? When is the best time? Right after the transaction? At shutdown of the program? At startup? Making it a utility that the user runs???
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>Paul
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>P.S. The Pack is really back.
I would say, do the PACK once a month. Or do a more accurate analysis: when is the number of deleted records greater than a certain percentage of reccount()? When it gets to more than, say, 10-20%, do the PACK.
Depending on concurrent use and size of tables, give your users either a menu option in the main application, to run directly, or a separate EXE with instructions to run at midnight ("use the Windows Task Manager").
Hilmar.
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