That's where I go on that show with Barbara Walters and play an aging geek.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Dennis McGrath <[email protected]>wrote: > What is "Downall View Typecasting?" > > Dennis McGrath > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence > Lustig > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:44 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Unload / Export VARCHAR columns > > << > 01. Define a temporary table on the fly with one exception to > use a different column name to hold NOTE data type. > >> > > I did do something similar to this, but since the user who needed to do > this works from the R> prompt I needed a technique that didn't require any > code. > > My solution was to create a view against the table UNIONed to a dummy view > using the Downall View Typecasting technique. That way, I simply told the > user to BROWSE against the view (AlertsInfo) instead of the table (Alerts) > and that everything would be exactly the same as before. > -- > Larry > > >
