The whole idea of indexing on deleted() was to speed things up. If it doesn't speed things up, then you might as well remove the tag anyway.
--- Jean Laeremans <laeremans.jeanmarie .at. skynet DO.T be> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:00:33 -0400, you wrote: > > Ed, > > I'm a hands on man by nature..so oc i tried it out not long > after the > Advisor article came out and in my experience it isn't as > clearcut as > you put it. > On a 10MB nw at the time with tables ranging from a few 1,000 > to > 1,500,000 rec. the results where at least confusing. > Tried it with no deleted rec in the table, a lot of them etc.., > closed > fox after each try > Test where simple Selects which did bring a lot , a few or only > one > rec over the wire. > All i could conclude is that it made not much of a diff. either > way > beneath 400,000 rec. > BTW are you sure FOx doesn't do his usual Rushmore trick behind > the > scenes ? (ie creating a temp index when non is available) > In fact your logic is faultless but i didn't see it in real > life... > > A+ > jml > > > > http://leafe.com/ > > http://dabodev.com/ > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]
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