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Huge table and seek/indexseek commands
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From
09/08/2002 08:32:55
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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09/08/2002 08:27:33
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00687800
Message ID:
00687915
Views:
39
>>HI Nadya,
>>
>>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
>
>Unbalanced! I would never have thought of that. Is this a common problem in VFP?
>
>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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