Hillmar. Gregory, Tore, Thomas

Thank you all so much. Stuff like this make me realize how long I've been away from working with VFP and DBFs and how some stuff that should be obvious just escaped me.

Hilmar, you are quite right about opening all the tables and I should have seen that immediately.

I'll report back.


>I may be wrong, but I have the impression that you are opening the 100+ tables, but not closing them again. Instead of USE-ing them "IN 0", try re-opening them in the same work area - or alternately, closing the table after processing it, and see whether that makes a difference.
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>>I am processing 105 tables in a loop to create pipe separated text files to bulk insert to SQL
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>>Win 7 64 , 8gb ram. I make sure i boot clean and I'm seeing over 4gb available RAM. 30+ gb free on drive with VFP. Data files being processed are on another drive on the same box. Results going into directory on same drive as VFP.
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>>Below is the code. running the project in dev I crash with "there is not enough memory to complete this operation" though it seems to complete the operation as the tablesql has all the records and all the textfiles get created.
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>>I assume I am running out of file handles but I see available RAM going down to about 1.1 gb.
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>>Each trip through the outer loop) representing 1 table is independant so is there some way to release memory or file handles used by the processing in the loop before going on to the next one?
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>>Suggestions appreciated.
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>>

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>>USE tablesql IN 0 EXCLUSIVE
>>SELECT tablesql
>>DELETE ALL
>>PACK
>>PACK memo
>>
>>lcexppath = 'c:\users\public\sql\'
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>>lcpath=ADDBS(THIS.oparentbizobj.getfield("cpath_to_vfp"))+"convert"
>>SET DEFAULT TO (lcpath)
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>>lcsql = "SELECT  "
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>>lcdbc="inmatetrustfund.dbc"
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>>* ITERATE TABLES
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>>OPEN DATABASE (lcdbc) EXCLUSIVE
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>>ntables= ADBOBJECTS(latables,"TABLE")
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>>FOR i=1 TO ALEN(latables,1)
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>>	lcdbf=latables(i)
>>	lcalias=JUSTSTEM(lcdbf)
>>	
>>	SELECT tablesql
>>	APPEND BLANK
>>	REPLACE tablename WITH lcalias
>>
>>	WAIT WINDOW lcalias NOWAIT
>>	
>>	IF UPPER(lcalias) <> "SYSSETUP"
>>		USE (lcdbf) IN 0 EXCLU
>>
>>		SELECT (lcalias)
>>
>>		=AFIELDS(laflds)
>>		lnflds = ALEN(laflds,1)
>>		mcnt = 1
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>>*   SCAN FIELDS
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>>		FOR N=1 TO lnflds
>>
>>			lcfld=ALLTRIM(laflds(N,1))
>>			lctype=laflds(N,2)
>>			lnsize=laflds(N,3)
>>			llnct=laflds(N,6)
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>>			WAIT WINDOW lcalias + SPACE(10)+lcfld NOWAIT
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>>			SELECT (lcalias)
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>>			DO CASE
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>>			CASE INLIST(lctype,"D","T")
>>				
>>				lcsql = lcsql + " NVL(TTOC("+lcfld+",3),[1800-01-01])" + IIF(N < lnflds,',','')+lf
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>>			CASE (lctype="C" )
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>>				 lcsql = lcsql + " "+lcfld+ IIF(N < lnflds,',','')+ lf
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>>		 	CASE INLIST(lctype,'I','N','Y')
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>>			       lcsql = lcsql + " "+lcfld+IIF(N < lnflds,',','')+lf
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>>			 CASE (lctype = "L")
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>>				lcsql = lcsql + " IIF("+lcfld+"=.t.,1,0) "+IIF(N < lnflds,',','')+lf
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>>			CASE (lctype = "M")
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>>				 lcsql = lcsql + " IIF(LEN(ALLTRIM("+lcfld+")) < 220, STRTRAN("+lcfld+",CHR(13)+CHR(10),'@@'),'MCOL+"+ALLTRIM(STR(mcnt))+"') "+ IIF(N < lnflds,',','')+lf
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>>				  mcnt = mcnt+1
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>>			ENDCASE
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>>		ENDFOR  && field scan
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>>		lcsql = lcsql + " FROM "+ lcalias + " INTO CURSOR C_"+lcalias
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>>		&lcsql
>>
>>		lcname = "C_"+lcalias
>>
>>		 SELECT (lcname)
>>
>>		lcexpstr = [ COPY TO ']+lcexppath+lcname+[' DELIMITED WITH "" WITH CHARACTER '|' ]
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>>		 &lcexpstr
>>
>>		 SELECT tablesql
>>		 LOCATE FOR ALLTRIM(tablename) = lcalias
>>		 REPLACE mSQL WITH lcsql
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>>		lcsql = "SELECT " +lf
>>
>>	ENDIF
>>
>>ENDFOR && tablescan
>>
>>CLOSE DATABASE && inmatetrustfund
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>>**********************************************************************************************************************
>>
>>SET DEFAULT TO (lcdefa)
>>
>>RETURN
>>
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