From: Phil Anthony <[log in to unmask]>


>I would think that the high-water mark would stay the same, but the
>delete chain would be really, really long.  You can repack or reload the
>data set to lower the high-water mark.


Exactly - as (I believe) Ken Paul stated earlier - the HWM dosen't move and
the delete chain would be rather long.  After PUTS and DELETES - as well as
CIUPDATES (which, in essence do a DELETE/PUT), a detail repack would be in
order every now and then.  For databases I use, even though they are
crash-n-burn for the most part, I have an Adager job which does this for
details I'm working with - the frequency depends on how many times I have to
test with a dataset.

Best,
Joe

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