>We have a very strange phenomenon occuring here and I wanted to know if anybody else has seen it or have any insight as to what could be going on.
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>Two data entry workstation are working on two different records in the same table. This particular table is made up mostly of memo fields eaach consisting of a few paragraphs of text.
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>A couple of months ago, I got a report that the information that someone was saving into a memo field in one record was being placed and saved in the record that the other workstation was editing, but in a different field!
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>I shrugged this off as a network fluke, or an incident of mentally ill data analysts.
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>About three weeks ago this started happening on a daily basis, and it has become a very troublesome problem.
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>I don't even know where to begin looking at code, because I wouldn't know how to duplicate this behavior if I tried... how could one workstation know the record that another is editing? And if it did, how could it know what field the other was editing?!?
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>Is this a network issue?
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>The network in question is Novell 3.12, and the workstations run NT 4.0. The offending app was written in VFP 5.0. Please help.
Erik,
Not the point to look at maybe, but since it's progressive try a purge /all on Novell volume.
Cetin