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Packing Alpha Anywhere Tables

Description

After editing or deleting records and layouts, it is a good idea to pack and backup the tables in your database. When the database is remotely located on a Application Server, you need to create a page with the following code.

1. Create a dialog component with an Advanced Button control.

2. Put this code in the button's Server > Event field.

   dim tbl as P
   dim fl as C
   fl = filefind.get("[PathAlias.adb_path]\*.dbf", FILE_FIND_NORMAL, "PN")
   for each fn in fl 
    on error goto skip 
    tbl = table.open(fn,file_rw_exclusive) 
    tbl.pack() 
    tbl.update_production_index() 
    tbl.close() 
    skip: 
    next

3. Place the dialog component on a page.

4. Run the page and click the button to pack your database's tables.