Compact?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 2/5/04 10:33 PM, Robert Brenstein at rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

>> When I delete a field from a table and then add a new field, it goes in
>> the "slot" taken up from the field I deleted. If I don't want that to
>> happen (for example, I want the new field to go "at the end") how would
>> I make that happen? Does compacting the DB from VAPP do that?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Ken Ray
>> Sons of Thunder Software
>> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>> 
> 
> Ken, if the field type is compatible, you can just rename the field
> and change its type. Otherwise, the simplest way is to dump xml,
> arrange fields in a desired order, then create a new database from
> that dump.

Actually not so simple change order in XML file if records present here

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