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Lazy Update

Procedure to create or update non-unique secondary table keys of internal tables. Non-unique secondary tables keys are not updated straight after insert operations using INSERT, or APPEND, or a block operation in which the whole table body is filled at once, or after a operation using MODIFY, or via field symbols, or data references. They are updated at the next explicit usage. See also direct update and delayed update.

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