• Basics? That's not how I would describe it! :w00t:

    Thanks for a good question, Sean. I think I once read or heard that after deleting all rows from a page, a cleanup process will eventually free up the page. But I am not sure; in fact, the more I think about it, the more I start to think I am confusing things.

    Anyway, can you shed some more light on this?


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