Thre's no way you can speed it up w/o packing the table. Even SEEK would take forever.
>Hi
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>I have a table that contains 192,216 records, 177,493 of these are deleted records.
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>I have a DELETED() Index on the table, yet when I run a command like SCAN FOR...ENDSCAN on an indexed field, it takes absolutely ages. This is over a 1MB WAN by the way, but it still should only take seconds, it takes minutes, about 3 to be exact.
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>What am I doing wrong here?
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>Thanks
>Kev
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