Is it possible to provide information pinpointing the differences? With my recent fun when I restored from my Sunday dump I know I'd changed one table structure in the week but I received lots of error 100 messages from tables where the structure hadn't been fiddled with for months.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Is it possible to provide information pinpointing the differences? With
my recent fun when I restored from my Sunday dump I know I'd changed one
table structure in the week but I received lots of error 100 messages from
tables where the structure hadn't been fiddled with for months. >>

Sorry, that would involve storing the structure in the table files, which is
something that I don't intend to add.  The only thing that ElevateDB knows
is that the checksum no longer matches the checksum that is present in the
catalog that you're using.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim


<<Sorry, that would involve storing the structure in the table files, which is
something that I don't intend to add.  The only thing that ElevateDB knows
is that the checksum no longer matches the checksum that is present in the
catalog that you're using.>>

In that case can I resurrect my request to have some mechanism to allow us the developers to tell ElevateDB that they are the same.


Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< In that case can I resurrect my request to have some mechanism to allow
us the developers to tell ElevateDB that they are the same. >>

How would you know that they're the same ?  If ElevateDB says that they're
different, then they're different.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

>How would you know that they're the same ? If ElevateDB says that they're
>different, then they're different.

Well, using the neat approach you suggested for comparing catalogs, I have compared the catalog that worked and the catalog that didn't. I've eyeballed a couple of the tables I was told were different and I can't see anything.

Can you post the data you use to calculate the checksum and make the comparison?

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< Can you post the data you use to calculate the checksum and make the
comparison? >>

How about you post the differences, and I'll tell you what is causing the
difference ?  That will be much easier for me.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

><< Can you post the data you use to calculate the checksum and make the
>comparison? >>
>
>How about you post the differences, and I'll tell you what is causing the
>difference ? That will be much easier for me.

If I could see some differences I would be happy to post them. As I said above I can't. The best I can do is post the results of the reverse engineering.

The reason I asked the question is I don't know if there are factors other than those revealed in the reverse engineering that are taken into account in calculating the checksum.

Roy Lambert

Roy,

<< If I could see some differences I would be happy to post them. As I said
above I can't. The best I can do is post the results of the reverse
engineering. >>

Yes, that's what I meant.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim


Posted in the binaries. Thursday is the one that went weird on me, Sunday is the one that was restored and generated the errors.

I noted the following tables

Calls
Companies
Contacts
Diary
ELN
EMails
emArchive

with the error before I stopped bothering.

Roy Lambert