I meant in an application that was in use by 100s of users. One record gets out-of-whack and the whole system goes down. LOL
--- Peter Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Madigan wrote: > > The worst Foxpro programming I've ever seen was > when > > the nitwit had a relation set to recno() > > > This does have uses and the best example I can think > of is when one of > our trainers was updating some data in a table using > foxpro 2.6 (She > wasn't a programmer - enough said). She ended up > replacing all the 8 > character primary keys with blanks using the replace > wizard. This was > done in the afternoon so the backup for this table > from the previous day > would be no good as the system had been updated. > This command was > perfect for this situation as fortunately there were > no new records in > the table. After restoring the previous days backup > to another folder: > > use yesterday\a_sname alias old && yesterdays > table > select 0 > use a_sname alias sname > set relation to recn() into old > replace all sn_account with old.sn_account > > Hey presto you have all your PK's back. Anyone > think of a better way of > doing that? > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
