Use of Deleted Byte

Advantage Concepts

Advantage TPS, as a default, uses the "deleted" byte in a DBF table record to indicate that the record has an update or insert pending within a transaction. This does not affect the deletion status of the record. If you would like to keep the "deleted" byte from being temporarily altered, a one byte character field with the name "AXS_TPS" can be added to any DBF table being used with TPS. The AXS_TPS field would then be used by the Advantage TPS rather than the "deleted" byte.

Note Use of the "deleted" byte and the optional "AXS_TPS" field only applies to DBF tables. Advantage proprietary ADT tables do not have the same concept of a "deleted" byte.