Also see my notes on working on a copy of the existing DB or a new one with just the pertinent tables. For this exercise, I would advise against Temp Tables because of the Gotcha effect if it blows up and you have to disconnect or give the 3 finger salute.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lin MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 12:52 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: pulling a text column apart > Well, now what have I done???? > > Before getting all these responses, I had managed to fudge my way > through it and I had it all in a Temporary Table. Because I still had > things to do to the data, I decided I should make my Temp table a real > one, in case of a crash (we had a power failure here last night) > > After making it a real table, I tried to use an Update command to make > some changes and that's when all went weird. I get an Error Message > Box: "Error in Function RBListofTables". This goes into a loop and I > need to shut down RBase in order to get it to stop. Now, the same thing > happens if I try to open that table, export the data, etc, etc. What > did I do and is there any way to fix it, or do I start over? > > Lin > > >
