It's the way memos work. There are more details in an article on my web site. Basically, when a memo reaches its allocated space, the data for that record is moved to the end of the file. The previous space is not recovered.


>I am replacing string data in a memo field, without using the replace-additive command.
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>The data gets replaced, but the table file size increases and increases until the table gets packed.
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>Thie lage table sizes are causing performance issues, so any ideas would be appreciated.
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>Thanks in advance
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>Mike