Karen, The size of column names IS NOT your problem. In the .RB1 file space is reserved for the full 18 character name space. In my previous post on this thread I aluded to the possibility that you exceed the total number of column names allowed in a database.
Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 1-504-737-3293 --- On Tue, 7/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Database Limits, again? > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 5:06 PM > Good idea, Larry. I'll rename the columns and see if it > helps. Because they > do their editing at the browser, though, we really need the > column names to > MEAN something to the user. Otherwise maybe I'll > have to use shorter names > and insist they use a form. I'll try it, though, and > let you know! > > Karen > > > > Here's an off chance -- I think your column names > may be too long. I'm > > guessing that somewhere an internal insert or update > statement is getting > > created with all the columns and that's > overflowing an internal buffer -- the > > statement's longer than 4092, or 8,184, or some > other number of bytes. That would > > throw an access violation when the program went to > read past the allocated > > buffer. > > > > Can you try the same experiment but name your columns > C1, C2 . . . C750 and > > see if that makes a difference? > > -- > > Larry
