>>Just a quick note to relate an experience I had with a DBC.
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>>My design had a table in the dbc which contained 214 fields. I was in the middle of my intial development (read - not yet backed up!) when I had a crash which corrupted the dbc. When I recovered the table (I had to destroy the link) all the field names which were longer than 10 characters had been truncated. Some field names were identical to 10 characters so I was getting duplicate field name errors. Moral - back up often or dont use the long name option in the dbc.
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>>Jerry
>Hi Jerry.
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>Point well taken. But I thought that was the 11th commandment...Thou shalt make backups :-) And, of course, I do every day.
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>Marcia
In my earlier life as a prof of computer science at a local college I used the "The Laws of Computer Programming" :
Law #1 - Backup
Law #2 - Backup
Law #3 - Backup.....
And, when my clients asked how often they should back up I replied "How much data can you afford to re-enter?"
Jerry
Nebraska Dept of Revenue