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From: lcscigra@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BEST G - PHYSICS)
Subject: Duplicate records in Reflex - KILL!
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.203140.29403@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: REFLEX, Utilities
Sender: lcscigra@watserv1.waterloo.edu (BEST G - PHYSICS)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 20:31:40 GMT
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Greetings:

Our research lab just got Reflex2 by Borland, and we're using it to store
listings of journal papers.  So far it works great; we copy the listings
from the science citation index CD available from the library using a
keyword search.  Then we convert it into a reflex database.  Nothing to it.

Unfortunately, when we collect listings using different keywords we get a
lot of overlap with our earlier searches, so a lot of duplicate listings
end up on our Reflex database. This is getting to be a major annoyance.
Our database contains about 1500 records, with one database for each year,
so deleting them by hand is out of the question.

So my question is: Does anyone know a quick way to delete duplicate records 
from a reflex database?  Either a way from within Reflex2 or an external
program would do.

Thanks for help. I'll post anything that works.

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