We recently upgraded to 8.0. Had Razzak on-hand. The major issues we had were make sure your database is healthy. Mine had a couple of issues. I could not do a pack. I could do a reload (which is what we do for backups). There was something wrong with a view of something that would find a premature end of data so it would abort on a table load and continue on like nothing happened except there was now a whole lot of missing data. So if you can do an unload all to a file and have the database recreate itself by running that file with NO ERRORS then your database is healthy enough to move up to 8.0.
Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Dan Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:11:33 -0700 Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Migrating from RBDOS/RBWIN 7.5 to RBASE 8.0 I just upgraded from 7.6 to 8.0. It went pretty well except for a few things. 1. Some sattached tables had to be recreated. 2. I had some views based on temp tables. So I had to create the temp table then copy the view(s) over. 3. For some reason some of the indexes were lost as well as the triggers. All these were easy to fix. I kept 7.6 on my desktop and did a side by side comparision with 8.0 and made them identical. We have been on 8.0 since Monday and it is working good!! Dan Goldberg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sami Aaron Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:26 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Migrating from RBDOS/RBWIN 7.5 to RBASE 8.0 Dennis - The main things I can think of are: 1) User interface - there is no more "R> Prompt window" behind your program code so any FILLINs or WRITE statements and some DIALOG statements are better suited to running in a form 2) Report and Form variables must have a set of parens around each expression and be sure all referenced variables are dotted - older versions of R:BASE allowed both of these things to be skipped but the newer versions are more exacting. I'd clean up the variables in the old version first before converting. 3) When you convert from DOS to 6.5++ Windows don't spend too much time lining things up - just make superficial changes in 6.5++ Windows then finish up tweaking after you convert to the newest Windows version. My advice would be to first upgrade to version 7.6 Windows because the users can continue to run all three - the 7.5 DOS and the 6.5++ windows versions and 7.6 Windows simultaneously and you don't have to have a "once-and-for-all-no-going-back" cut-off date. Once you've done the upgrade to 7.6 Windows and everything is out of DOS then the upgrade to version 8.0 is seamless and simple - you just have to convert the database and just about everything else is already converted. There are some renaming of some plugins that you should watch for if you use any of the Plugin PowerPack files. Welcome to the R:BASE you always wanted!!!! Sami ____________________________ Sami Aaron Software Management Specialists 913-915-1971 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:15 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Migrating from RBDOS/RBWIN 7.5 to RBASE 8.0 Well the time has come to ship or cut bait. Our DB is 1.4 gigs, we are running now with RBDOS 7.5 plus a few reports in RBWIN 6.5 (2000). We are going to have to get to RBWIN 8.0 I'd sure like to hear from anyone who has converted from RBDOS+RBWIN6.5 to RBWIN 8.0 I'd like to know how dificult the conversion was and what steps made the most sense. I have the upgrade documents, but would like to know a little more about what I am getting into, as I'm sure everyone understands. My new boss will need this info for planning purposes. A few comments on this list would probably be appropriate, but extended replies with additional documents should probably be sent to me directly Thanks to all Dennis McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
