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Best reindex practice
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00771255
Message ID:
00771259
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You've good reindexing procedure in place. I don't see any reason to change it.

>Hi All.
>Till now i reindexed by taking the following steps:
>Delete Tag All
>Pack
>Recreate indexes.
>
>Today i've read Jim Nelson's comments about the PACK command:
>"The Hacker's Guide is also simply wrong when it asserts that REINDEX does not remove "bloat". It does remove bloat of both kinds and has done so for several releases now. And a PACK that does an internal REINDEX does write to a new CDX file (as does REINDEX itself)."
>
>So does it mean that one PACK will be enough to both properly reindex and pack a table?
>What would you suggest be a good reindexing procedure?
>Best wishes.
>Kamil
--sb--
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