Hi Jim.

>I get the general sense that there is more CDX corruption happening now than, say, 1 or 2 years ago.

That hasn't been my personal experience, but I'm just one guy.

>I'm especially wary of Win's cacheing mechanism which, from anything I've read on the subjct, quite clearly is designed for things like Word documents or Excel spreadsheets or SQL Server and decidedly not for random record multi-table (and file) updates/writes.

Windows caching has definitely been a problem for us. We always tell our users to turn write caching off.

Doug