See
http://www.craigberntson.com/Articles/kb008.htm>I have a table that is updated by a VFP 6 automation server and the index appears to grow by itself even when no records have been added. Reindexing the table will shrink the index to a normal size, but afterwords it will continue to grow.
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>Any ideas of what may cause an index to bloat like this?
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer