>Hi Doug
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>Does SDT delete all tags, PACK and then recreate the tags when a PACK is requested?
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>Since a PACK does a reindex and since the tags may be corrupted, its obvious reindex cannot be trusted. So I figure it would be practical to destroy the tags, pack and use metadata to reindex.

What he actually does for a PACK is use SQL to create a new temp table of undeleted records. If that works, he deletes the original table and associated files if any [CDX and FPT]. Renames the temp table to the original table name then recreates the indexes, PK, FK, and any other table property found in the meta data.

If there is a PK on the table, he uses that as the ORDER BY in the SQL