I think Kurt's on to something there.  With an index on a lot of the
fields, an APPEND/REPLACE forces the indexes to be updated twice (more if
there are separate REPLACE statements), while an INSERT INTO only does it
once.

Fred


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a very strange problem.  It is an application that uses append and
> gather.  June of last year their system started creating orders with blank
> information in them.  Mainly dispatcher.  They call them phantom orders.
>  There is no rhyme or reason for them to appear, but 40% of their overall
> orders since then.  They wrote a routine to zero out the numbers and delete
> them but it is annoying because they show up and then the purge routine
> removes them and the users see this.  There are about 100 users.
>
> The only thing that I found that is unusual is that the order table was
> indexed on every field with the invoice field descending.  Could this cause
> problems when adding new records?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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> Jeff
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