Re: [dba-dev] Ghost records

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit
Hello Marc, >> After compacting, it is now 8.88 K > This is what I was hoping for when I copied the table definitions and > deleted the old tables. Would it make sense to add this as a menu option? Yes. Not sure if there already is an issue requesting this, though. Ciao Frank -

Re: [dba-dev] Ghost records

2007-08-23 Thread Marc Blakely
andrew wrote: Marc Blakely wrote: Drew, I've recently run into a similar situation with a database I'm developing for work. There are two tables which I import records into from a csv file via Calc. I delete the previous records from each table prior to the import (actually append, sinc

Re: [dba-dev] ldap driver

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hello Andre, > we would love to see ldap support for form letters. is anyone working on > this yet ? > > reference: > http://dba.openoffice.org/development/projects.html#ldap Nobody is working on this at the moment. The "we" in your sentence suggests you're a corporate user, who is perhaps even

Re: [dba-dev] Ghost records

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Andrew, > Should I change the summary on the current Issue or close that one and > open another? Please add your findings to the issue (and change the summary if appropriate) , I think it still describes pretty good what this all is about. This sounds serious enough to have a deeper look into

[dba-dev] ldap driver

2007-08-23 Thread Andre Roth
Hello, we would love to see ldap support for form letters. is anyone working on this yet ? reference: http://dba.openoffice.org/development/projects.html#ldap best regards andré roth Dreamlab Technologies AG Monbijoustrasse 36 3011 Bern Switzerland Tel: +41 31 398 6

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hello Barbara, > When I tried this as a query, that didn't work either: > > SQL Status: 0 > Error code: -155 > > Statement does not generate a result set Just as explanation, as you already found your way: This message says you executed the statement in the query designer. The designer is

Re: [dba-dev] Ghost records

2007-08-23 Thread andrew
Marc Blakely wrote: Drew, I've recently run into a similar situation with a database I'm developing for work. There are two tables which I import records into from a csv file via Calc. I delete the previous records from each table prior to the import (actually append, since the structure d

Re: [dba-dev] Ghost records

2007-08-23 Thread Marc Blakely
andrew wrote: Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Andrew, In one particular table there are, what appear to be deleted records that do not show in a dataview window. They are not returned if one just queries the single table. But if one uses that table in a join, then the

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
andrew wrote: Hmm. In the Execute SQL Statement dialog, I had UPDATE "Addresses" SET ADDR = TRIM ( ADDR ) Hi Barbara, I believe it was Mr Reagan that said - 'Trust but verify." Out of the box HSQL has LTRIM = Left Trim RTRIM = Right Trim But no TRIM... if you could see how hard I am l

Re: [dba-dev] Ghost records

2007-08-23 Thread andrew
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Andrew, In one particular table there are, what appear to be deleted records that do not show in a dataview window. They are not returned if one just queries the single table. But if one uses that table in a join, then they records are ret

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 18:46 -0500 schrieb Barbara Duprey: > > Marc Santhoff wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 16:42 -0500 schrieb Barbara Duprey: > > > > > >> OK, I saw in the Help that only admin commands are allowed in the > >> Execute SQL Statement dialog, so I created a qu

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread andrew
Hmm. In the Execute SQL Statement dialog, I had UPDATE "Addresses" SET ADDR = TRIM ( ADDR ) Hi Barbara, I believe it was Mr Reagan that said - 'Trust but verify." Out of the box HSQL has LTRIM = Left Trim RTRIM = Right Trim But no TRIM... if you could see how hard I am laughing right now

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
Marc Santhoff wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 16:42 -0500 schrieb Barbara Duprey: OK, I saw in the Help that only admin commands are allowed in the Execute SQL Statement dialog, so I created a query. Same result, except that the whole statement is there. So what token is it complain

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 16:42 -0500 schrieb Barbara Duprey: > OK, I saw in the Help that only admin commands are allowed in the > Execute SQL Statement dialog, so I created a query. Same result, except > that the whole statement is there. So what token is it complaining about? > > SQL St

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
Barbara Duprey wrote: andrew wrote: Barbara, I sure don't feel preached at, just informed. Would you by any chance know the SQL to remove leading and trailing blanks from FIELDA in TABLEB? I'm sure it's all somewhere in there, but I can't face that learning curve right now! UPDATE TA

Re: [dba-dev] Appending Data to a Table

2007-08-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
andrew wrote: Barbara, I sure don't feel preached at, just informed. Would you by any chance know the SQL to remove leading and trailing blanks from FIELDA in TABLEB? I'm sure it's all somewhere in there, but I can't face that learning curve right now! UPDATE TABLEB SET FIELDA = TRIM( F

Re: [dba-dev] Bug: Address Book Source Wizard, switch input method, and deadlock

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hello Xiaofei, (I *really* hope I got the salutation right this time :). The habit in this list - and all other OOo lists I know - is to address the oner person with the first name, so I hope you don't mind.) > Thanks very much for your reply, duyunfen has Fwded it to me, we have > tracked the b

Re: [dba-dev] [Fwd: Bug: Address Book Source Wizard, switch input method, and deadlock]

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang Xiaofei
Hi Mr. Schönheit, Thanks very much for your reply, duyunfen has Fwded it to me, we have tracked the bug but the deadlock seem to occur somewhere among windows' system processes, here is how the Call Stack looks at a point when the phenomenon happens: >user32.dll!77d191be() user32