>>HI Nadya,
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>>Have you tried to reindex the index? It might have become unbalanced.
>>Another cause might be that the table is highly fragmented over the disk. Did you try to defragment
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>Unbalanced! I would never have thought of that. Is this a common problem in VFP?
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>Hilmar.
Come to think of it, almost all my tables have a PK on a sequential number ("autoincremented") - that is, the table is already sorted. Would this be an invitation to an unbalanced index? Would it help to reindex regularly?
Hilmar.
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