>>>Thanks for the info.... I was able to figure out what I had to do. Basically I used a DELETE TRIGGER in the code to shut it down while executing the code.
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>>And how would you get the darn thing back in again?
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>I only needed it turned off while executing this small program (turned off for speed performance increase - I took care of the referential integrity myself during the deletions). I did not need it turned back on during the execution of the program.
Oh, I see. I thought that DELETE TRIGGER would, indeed, delete it from the database container. Let me speculate: perhaps it doesn't really delete it, if you open the database SHARED?
Hilmar.
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