You misunderstand the ebase import procedures. Reread those sections of the
manual. It looks like you are looking at the FileMaker import procedure.
Ebase will assign a unique record number to each record as it is imported.
If you indeed have two databases and they have no overlap in names, just
import one and then import the other. If there are duplicates they can be
found later as ebase has fairly good duplicate detection methods.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] Merging databases
>
>
> Hi,
> In a previous email (26/6) you mentioned that to properly merge two
> databases, we should create a unique relationship between the tables. My
> question is, when we are doing the import function from ebase and we are
> mapping the fields, there is no place there to specify which
> fields are the
> primary ones. For example, we don't really have a unique key in either of
> these databases. What we would like to do, is to specify that the
> First Name
> and Last Name are the keys, that if they match in both tables, the
> Destination record should be merged with the info from the Source table,
> instead of a new record being created.
>
> Stephen Bisk
>
>
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