Clayton,
Let me request that you adjust your attitude about this entire problem.
You just received two replies from Jeff Watson and Buddy Walker, who
responded with in just a very short time suggesting work arounds for your
problem and you re-sponded with a nasty reply instead of thanking them for
rendering assistance.
I have been an R:Base developer since 1982....Went into retirement a few
years back and after all of the changes and new tools from RBTI, have been
back into developing for two years.
These new versions and tools are definitely not "Your fathers old
Oldsmobile". This is an entirely new product that I consider fantastic to
work with, a great advance over the original R:BASE, and other competing
products of the prior days and it changes weekly with new additions and
enhancements.
My product is not as complicated as many of those by developers that I have
gotten to know in these past two years ( but, I know that I can call on them
for and will get assistance and advice as you have gotten.)
But, since one of my initial procedures is loading data via gateway to
initially load a new database and then updating the data periodically, I use
very much the same procedure with temp tables that they have outlined and
then adjust the values with written code as they suggest.
In developing this code, I relied on advice from experienced developers and
then rounded it out myself through experimentation trial and error.
It would be impossible for RBTI to anticipate the variations in advance in
all of the database tables that come down the pike for loading.
Should RBTI or anyone else be able to project the uncountable
probabibilities that could occur, our services would not be needed as
developers.
In short, be thankful that you have this group of developers, who will take
their time and talent to assist you and try experimenting with use of
humility. appreciate so much that they have aided me in the past.
George Baker
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clayton ANDERSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:14 AM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Importing data using Gateway
So turn off the PC brain and trust the human to get it right?? Not much of
a solution. Does this need to be sent to the request for enhancement
group??
"Jeffrey M. Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/15/2008 7:25 AM
>>>
I have noticed the same behaviour, but what you can do is load your data
to a temporary table with no rules and keys. once it is loaded you can
'clean' the data as needed, and append / select+insert it into the
desired table. Hope this helps.
-Jeff
Jeff Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tube Methods, Inc.
610-279-7700
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clayton
ANDERSON
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:20 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Importing data using Gateway
The old RBase (DOS 4.5) handled exceptions during data importing with
the Gateway and placed the exceptions into a except.dat file. Version
7.6 seems to just stop when coming across and rule violation. Any way
to have it continue and/or handle exceptions??
