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[Jeff Harrison]

--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:25:21AM -0800, Jeff
> Harrison wrote:
> > Good info, but I don't think that this is what
> Gary
> > had in mind.  It sounds like he is looking for
> > something like the -ra flag for demand indexes, so
> > that he can re-build the demand indexes on the
> same
> > keys and the same selection as they were the last
> > time.  
> > 
> > I believe that you can use the -r flag to rebuild
> on
> > the same keys, but the selection information is
> not
> > stored in the index, so I don't think there is a
> way
> > to have it automatically select the correct
> records
> > without doing some work beforehand.... Unless you
> > always want to select all records.  In that case
> the
> > following should work where N is the demand index:
> > 
> > dxmaint filename -oN -r -a -e
> 
> *I* think what he probably needs is that package
> that extracts all your
> index information, and builds a script which will
> rebuild them all,
> manually.  Whose was that, Bob Stockler's?
> 
> I've got it laying around somewhere if he needs it.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 

Yes, I wrote one too -- many years ago, but the
problem is that you can't extract the selection
information on demand indexes because it isn't stored
in the index.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.


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