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  3. May 2003

Re: Physical File Performance

Noel, can you set the file to reuse deleted records? If there's not an application that depends on RRN, you save a lot of space. You still might want an initial reorganization.

Vern

At 09:12 AM 5/9/2003 +0100, you wrote: 
The main reasons for the reorgs are.
A. To remove the large number of deleted records.
B. To hopefully improve the performance
C. To reclaim some space.
D. To highlight the problem of large files to our software supplier !!
E. This file is an integral part of our system; it alone represents 50% of
our total database. For this reason we like to keep an eye on it.

Yes the file is keyed.

Noel Johnston



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