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Re: Database maintenance



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(1) If max 2200 days of historical data is convenient, maybe have a look at
Quote Plus data service.

(2) Otherwise, Equis MSFL and some programming skills (VB/VC/Delphi) is the
path to freedom :)
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At 09:31 3/05/99 -0400, Robert Duplain wrote:
>I'm looking for a simple and rapid way to clean my Metastock database.
>I have some 16000 stocks in the database in 90 directories.  Many of the 
>stocks are now inactives or dead and the quotes are not anymore updated.
>I want to delete from my database all those inactive stocks and regroup the 
>remaining stocks in less directories.
>Using Downloader for this task is quite hurdle as we cannot sort the stocks 
>by dates and then use the delete function to delete obsolete stocks in a 
>block.  So we have to delete one at the time.  It would take weeks.
>
>Do anybody know a better way to do the job ?
>
>I heard about an Equiis database maintenance program.  Did anybody used it 
>? Would it easily do the job?
>
>Thanks
>Robert
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