PMFJI. There's interesting information about CDX bloat at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CDXBloat~VFP.

>Hi David,
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>In an old thread you say:
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>"CDX bloat is something that affects performance. Routine reindexing is prudent for tables that undergo lots of adds and deletes."
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>Are you suggesting that a reindexing routine (or a 'delete tag all' followed by various 'index on' commands) should be part of any application that handles tables that have a lot of records added and deleted?
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>My hunch is that there's no gain at all. I'm talking now about vfp7sp1. Addition of records will not over-inflate the cdx. And deletion of records will neither inflate nor shrink the cdx. Purging the deleted records with PACK also implies a REINDEX.