Just update all the key fields (fields you don't want anyone seeing) 
with sequential dummy information. Then zap the database.

Static information without context is useless.

Olav.

Pete Augustine wrote:

>Gentlemen,
>   Is there any way to make sure that a file or database is deleted?  We are
>shutting down and selling our hp969 and it ran our payroll system for many
>years.  So it has social security numbers and bank routing numbers on it. 
>Besides taking each drive out individually and hooking it up to a pc with a
>scsi card and running seagates low level format utility, is there another
>way in mpe?  My one thought was to clear out all our data then restore and
>copy a zipcode database until 95% capacity then delete all the copies?  I
>just don't want a third world country to get one of the drives 5 years from
>now and recover social security numbers or bank routing numbers.
>
>Thanks for your thoughts,
>
>Pete
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