>I am using the VFP tables. I have a situation where, you enter a record and the user enters a unique key. The record is then deleted. Later another record with the same key is entered. an error occurs regarding the uniqueness of the key. Why does this error occur. When I browse the VFP table I do see that the old record is there and marked for deletetion. Is there a way to avoid this problem with out packing and reindexing the table?
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>Thank you in advance
>Christine

Christine,

Add for !deleted() to your primary/candidate key clause

This index will not be used for Rushmore optimization. But you can get around that by adding another regular index with the same expression without the 'for !deleted()'