Hi Wiebe,
On my oldest DP application I have never successfully been able to do the
"Big Clean". I tried it a few times but I had a few peculiarities, so I
dumped the idea of the "Big Clean". Very fortunately though it has never
had an issue that made it imperative, so with a few million records and 15
years behind it, I think I have probably been lucky.
One thing I usually do when I have any flakey behaviour in an application is
run DPDiag. It is so easy to little errors to creep in, and especially to
have mismatches in field specifications across panel and data links, or to
have deleted fields that are required by a report. I generally find that
correcting the errors found by DPDiag tames a recalcitrant program.
Regards
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wiebe Cazemier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:35 PM
Subject: [Dataperf] Re: RE: Re: Crash while running report
On Friday 30 November 2007 15:03, Don Friedman wrote:
Wiebe - I've had experiences like you're describing and doing "the big
clean" generally helps. I swear that a piece of lint gets into the data
somewhere and screws things up. It has been some time since this has
happened to me but I remember that when I exported the data and scanned
it
there were some ascii codes in there that shouldn't have been there are
removing them cleared things up.
Don
I've just done the Big Clean, but it didn't help, unfortunately. It fails
at
the same point. However, I don't think it's because of a specific card,
because when I remove the card, it fails at a different ponit.
I also tried not running DP with /w (to output in the latin1 character
set),
which I normally use. It didn't make a difference.
BTW, is there any risk in doing a Big Clean? I noticed that some things
are
different: the first report ("Built-In Short Reports") used to have a
dutch
name, now it's English. Not that that's a problem, it's just different.
Also,
when outputting a report to a file, the output also used to be written to
the
screen, but that doesn't happen anymore.
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