Hi Mal -
One thing you may want to consider: A consideration when doing updates is what happens if you change the data structure of a table? You need to change the structure of the client's table (and perhaps the views that use it) without hurting the data. This can, of course, be done programatically but not cost effectively when there is a tool like Stonefield Data Tools available. If you aren't familiar with Stonefield, i suggest checking out
www.stonefield.com. Doug Henning, the auther, has created an incredibly useful tool which takes a lot of the anxiety out of updating applications at the user sight (as well as dealing with a whole lot of other issues) Very useful information on the site.
If not, what kind of problems will
>I be having down the line?
>
>It would be nice if this was okay to do when upgrading (it can
>be automated).<<
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Charles Hankey
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