From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:4556d2c9$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> On modern systems it should not make a difference in speed, so I'm
quessing
> you're referring to you AIX system. It's old, technologically speaking, so
I
> can easily believe it requires trickery like that.

Modern systems too if you don't automate the optimization process.
SQLserver for example still needs to have the shrink db process run as part
of the maintenance schedule, it's not on-the-fly doing that.

Geo.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5