Hi.
Those numbers will not change during a compaction. The gaps in the numbers
will remain, but the records themselves will be stored more efficiently after
the compaction. And no, you'll never actually see how the records have been
rearranged unless you use a hex editor to read the individual bytes in the
file. The database may be a faster loading and retrieving data, but that's
the only thing you'll notice as a user.
But you don't actually need these record numbers to be resequenced, do you?
If so, then you shouldn't use an AutoNumber type for this field, but a
user-defined function to create the next number for any new record to be
added to the table.
HTH.
Gunny
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