Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Tip of the Day: Using New SET PROGRESS Command in R:BASE for Windows
Supported Versions: . R:BASE 7.6 for Windows (Build: 7.6.1.30420 or higher) . R:BASE C/S:I 7.6 for Windows (Build: 7.6.1.30420 or higher) . R:BASE Turbo V-8 for Windows (Build: 8.0.15.30420 or higher) Syntax: SET PROGRESS ON/OFF Default: OFF Did you know that you can use the new SET PROGRESS ON command to display a cool progress bar to show the progress when building indexes, packing or reloading a database? You may use this new setting when rebuilding INDEXes, PACKing or RELOADing a database. Example 01: CONNECT RRBYW14 PACK INDEX Example 02: CONNECT RRBYW14 PACK TABLE Customer PACK TABLE InvoiceHeader PACK TABLE InvoiceDetail Example 03: CONNECT RRBYW14 RELOAD RRBYWNEW Example 04: DISCONNECT SET MULTI OFF PACK RRBYW14 SET MULTI ON Example 05: DISCONNECT SET MULTI OFF CONNECT RRBYW14 PACK SET MULTI ON Enjoy and make sure to have fun! Very Best R:egards, Razzak.

