On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
> 1. Am I right in thinking (I am sure I came across it somewhere) that
> although one can use DELETE TAG ALL and then recreate the index(es)
> using INDEX ON <expr1> TAG <expr2> that it is in fact better to delete
> the CDX and then recreate the index (of course one has to then bypass
> the "Structural Index not found" error, but I have dome that before
> anyway).
DELETE TAG ALL deletes the CDX. Try it out to verify.
> 2. When is REINDEX a valid/viable alternative to the above
> approaches ?
> Is best practise not to use it at all ?
REINDEX was useful back in the days of IDX files. You could open a
table without opening the index; later on when you opened the index,
REINDEX would bring it up-to-date with any changes you had made.
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