>>Houston,
>>I'm curious. Not to put a damper on commercial enterprise and competition, but I thought Doug Hennig's SDT did this. Does your utility do stuff that this doesn't?
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>I just spoke to a knowledgeable User of SDT and he is under the impression that it still does and always has required USE ... EXCLUSIVE to recreate Indexes. My utility does not need Exclusive Use - i.e. Tables can be open by other Users or Processes whilst recreating Indexes - Christof Lange described my technique as "very clever".
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>When I got this to work I was under the impression that this was something big, alas the lack luster response here on the UT is disappointing.

Sorry to hear about the poor response.

While it may not do this particular thing (reindex without exclusive DBC use), SDT does do a lot. Maybe you can contact Doug and see if he is interested in "acquiring" your cleverness and incorporating it into his product.

Regards.