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Message        Carl4          Post subject: Inserting records in a new 
databasePosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:39 am                         
Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:41 pm
Posts: 1                Hi,
I am a new beginner with RB, although have experience with VB6, and enough 
basic knowledge of SQL to make me dangerous. I am trying to insert data from a 
text file created from an existing VB application that stored TYPE (structure) 
records in a random file. It's all going well and have created a simple .txt 
sequential file of the data. I can read it fine with RB and I created a new 
database and added a table using the IDE. The data includes a mix of string and 
integer data and the following code won't let me insert any integers.

' (define, open and test for database connection, etc, etc)
'  
BoxRecord = New DatabaseRecord
BoxRecord.Column("boxnumber") = a       //<- the variable 'a' is an integer 

When I set up the table, I made sure this field was set to integer. All other 
fields defined as integer show a bug, insisting on a string value. Strings work 
fine.
Changing the variable to str(a) makes everyting work, but this can't be right 
.....
Is this method specifically for string data only? Any suggestions on how I 
should approach this would be gratefully appreciated.
Also, what is the difference between the above statement and the SQLexecute 
INSERT?

Thanks for your patience - Carl   
                             Top                JShaffer          Post subject: 
Re: Inserting records in a new databasePosted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:16 am         
                
Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:18 am
Posts: 103
Location: Summerfield, Florida                Quote:BoxRecord = New 
DatabaseRecord
BoxRecord.Column("boxnumber") = a //<- the variable 'a' is an integer 

Try 
BoxRecord.IntegerColumn("boxnumber") = a

Jim   
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