Re: [RBASE-L] - out of dynamic space epilog

2022-12-29 Thread Bill Downall
Happy New Year, Jim and all. Fifteen years ago or so, I had a client with that problem popping up frequently. The problem went away when they re-cabled the office. Bill On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 9:25 AM 'jim schmitt' via RBASE-L < rbase-l@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Thanks to Karen, Razzak, Rand

Re: [RBASE-L] - Announcement: R:BASE "Community" Facebook Group

2021-12-14 Thread Bill Downall
For anyone who has to use FB, but wants to maximize personal privacy and security, here are some recent instructions: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/facebook-privacy-settings-a1775535782/ Bill (sent from mobile phone) On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 8:10 PM Mark Lindner wrote: > I agree. I h

Re: [RBASE-L] - SQL: Column Value for MAX(Date)

2021-09-14 Thread Bill Downall
Doug, Does this work? CREATE VIEW TrailerMaxDates (TrailerID, MaxDate) AS + SELECT TrailerID,MAX(TrailerDate) FROM TrailerInfo GROUP BY TrailerID SELECT t1.*, t2.TrailerLoc + FROM TrailerMaxDates t1, TrailerInfo t2 + WHERE t1.TrailerID = t2.TrailerID + AND t1.MaxDate = t2.TrailerDate Bill

Re: [RBASE-L] - Re: SQL book

2021-01-22 Thread Bill Downall
I'm well, Tony. I've been fully retired for 3 years now (except for one weekend for an R:BASE Conference in Las Vegas!). I still use my R:BASE mugs, shirts, pens, portfolios, flashlights and other things all the time. I don't use R:BASE much any more, except for a grocery shopping list application.

Re: [RBASE-L] - SQL book

2021-01-21 Thread Bill Downall
Your last name wasn't on your email. You aren't by any chance Thom Cimicato, of the SWORBUGS, are you? Bill On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:46 AM Thom wrote: > Decades ago there were two SQL books/manuals specific to R:Base written > by some top developer(s) that was available to the R:Base Communit

Re: [RBASE-L] - SQL book

2021-01-21 Thread Bill Downall
I was a co-author of those books, with David M. Blocker. I'm afraid they are beyond recovery. The last versions were written in Ami Pro, WordStar, or maybe even the Describe word processor on OS/2, and self-published by David. Even if we could find the source files, I'm not sure we could read eithe

Re: [RBASE-L] - Bill Eyring

2020-05-10 Thread Bill Downall
I'm so sorry to hear this. Thanks for sharing it, Doug. Bill was a fun and engaged part of many developers' conference. Bill D. On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:40 PM wrote: > Bill helped with the programming needs of Catholic Cemeteries in Long > Island New York. > He helped support their programming

Re: [RBASE-L] - My first day in the Home Office (No, not in the British sense!)

2020-03-25 Thread Bill Downall
Lovely memory from a great fellow. Thanks, Razzak. Bill > > -- For group guidelines, visit http://www.rbase.com/support/usersgroup_guidelines.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: [RBASE-L] - SQL Help - OT

2018-11-27 Thread Bill Downall
Unfortunately for you, Paul, the SQL definition of a table is "an unordered set of rows." So the concept of a "next row" is problematic to building a query. Your query provides the order through the ORDER BY clause. Will the ID2 column match a ID1 column more than once in the table? I'd be workin

Re: [RBASE-L] - Limit inserts to one of many

2018-08-03 Thread Bill Downall
Hi, Doug! What about: INSERT into Inventory (ItemCode,Description) SELECT *DISTINCT* ItemCode,Description + FROM Orders + WHERE ItemCode in (SELECT ItemCode from NewItems) (sent from Moto Z) On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 9:00 PM Doug Hamilton wrote: > My SQL brain cell is stumped. > > We have a bunch

Re: [RBASE-L] - Blank date value

2018-05-25 Thread Bill Downall
orm. > > Claudine: does the database see them as null? If you did a select where > datecol is null, do they show up? > > Karen > > > > -----Original Message- > From: Bill Downall > To: rbase-l > Sent: Fri, May 25, 2018 7:19 am > Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Bla

Re: [RBASE-L] - Blank date value

2018-05-25 Thread Bill Downall
Claudine, If you can write a WHERE clause that finds all the bad dates, you should be able to write an UPDATE that fixes them. Are all the wrong dates off by exactly a century? If not, you will have to make your WHERE clause more complicated, and do this more than once. SELECT datecolumn FROM ta

Re: [RBASE-L] - R:BASE Technologies, Inc. - Special Announcement

2018-05-15 Thread Bill Downall
Claudine, I know! Me too. But he said Wednesday, May 16 at 3:00 pm. And that hasn't happened yet. Bill On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Claudine Robbins wrote: > Like a kid waiting for Santa... Did I miss it or was there no > TipoftheDayDigest_2017.pdf? > > Claudine :-) > > -Original Mess

Re: [RBASE-L] - Android App

2017-12-11 Thread Bill Downall
Fantastic! If I weren't retiring in 20 days, I'd be asking for details. Thanks, Tommy of "Tommy and the Sworbugs." Happy holidays. Bill (sent from Moto Z) On Dec 11, 2017 7:16 PM, "THOMAS CIMICATO" wrote: > I just want to brag here and see if anybody else has used RBase this > way > > My

Re: [RBASE-L] - Released: R:BASE X/XE (Version 10) - Update 3

2017-09-07 Thread Bill Downall
Nice new features in R:BASE, and also a great new interface for rbaseupdates.com! Bill On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:00 AM, A. Razzak Memon wrote: > Thursday, September 07, 2017 > > To All Users of R:BASE X and R:BASE X Enterprise (Version 10): > > Official updates of R:BASE X/R:BASE X Enterprise (

Re: [RBASE-L] - Problem with a Select Distinct Statement

2017-08-03 Thread Bill Downall
Hi, Paul, In R:BASE, you can use the #3 notation to select the column that is physically the third column in a table. Does that work with an SATTACHED table, too? SELECT #7, #3 FROM dbo.SALES_REP Bill On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Paul C. Buckley wrote: > Albert, > > > > I don’t see a way t

Re: [RBASE-L] - get the minimum and store it

2017-07-19 Thread Bill Downall
Dan, Here are some ways to gather aggregates from your view: SELECT loczipcode, dlrnum, MIN (distance) FROM viewname GROUP BY loczipcode, dlrnum SELECT loczipcode, COUNT (DISTINCT Dlrnum), MIN (distance) FROM ViewName GROUP BY loczipcode SELECT LocZipCode, COUNT (DISTINCT DlrNum), MIN (di

Re: [RBASE-L] - count updates, save excel file

2017-05-25 Thread Bill Downall
Chaya, Welcome. For #1: SET VAR vUpdatesCounted INTEGER = NULL SET FEEDBACK ON UPDATE tablename SET VAR vUpdatesCounted = .RBTI_RowsUpdated Bill On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Chaya Goldberg wrote: > Hi, thanks for this list. It’s my first time writing in. > > I have two questions:

Re: [RBASE-L] - Quickbooks

2017-05-09 Thread Bill Downall
I've built a bridge between R:BASE and QB through a 3rd party product called Transaction Pro Importer out of Bay State Consulting. It's been working well for years, but Karen is right: when QB gets upgraded or moved from desktop to cloud, the TPI product may have to change and the R:BASE end rework

Re: [RBASE-L] - SPAM

2017-05-03 Thread Bill Downall
Steve's analysis is good in a lot of cases, but this one is different. I received the email purporting to be from Javier. Javier was not in my contacts list at the time, and I was not in his. So changing our email passwords will not stop this particular exploit. What we have in common is that we a

Fwd: [RBASE-L] - "In the Cloud" sound effects

2017-04-21 Thread Bill Downall
Thanks, Dan. You got me looking in the right places. All I had to do was go into the server's services settings and set the "Windows Audio" and "Windows Audio Endpoint Builder" services to start automatically. The redirection apparently was already set. By the way, that was Sami Aaron's wav file,

Re: [RBASE-L] - "In the Cloud" sound effects

2017-04-21 Thread Bill Downall
wrong." On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Bill Downall wrote: > Thanks, Dan. You got me looking in the right places. All I had to do was > go into the server's services settings and set the "Windows Audio" and > "Windows Audio Endpoint Builder" services

Re: [RBASE-L] - "In the Cloud" sound effects

2017-04-21 Thread Bill Downall
Apr 21, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Alastair Burr wrote: > SET ETHEREAL_SOUNDS ON, maybe? > > Regards, > Alastair. > > On 21/04/2017 18:52, Bill Downall wrote: > > I have an app that was converted to a cloud app recently. > > We just noticed that sounds that have always alert

[RBASE-L] - "In the Cloud" sound effects

2017-04-21 Thread Bill Downall
I have an app that was converted to a cloud app recently. We just noticed that sounds that have always alerted people to data entry issues no longer sound on the local computer. I presume if anyone were standing (floating?) next to the server-in-the-cloud they would hear the sound. Is that accura

Re: [RBASE-L] - More samples

2017-01-19 Thread Bill Downall
LOL. You teaser! On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:12 AM, A. Razzak Memon wrote: > Oops! > > That was supposed to be for my development team! > > > Razzak > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBASE-L" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop recei

Re: [RBASE-L] - RIP Bob Castanaro

2016-12-23 Thread Bill Downall
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[RBASE-L] - RIP Bob Castanaro

2016-12-22 Thread Bill Downall
After a grueling battle with cancer, long-time R:BASE developer Bob Castanaro, from Barberton, OH, died this week. He chose to stop dialysis a little over a week ago, and, as he said, to say goodbye on his own terms. I always enjoyed playful, friendly, respectful political disagreements with Bob

Re: [RBASE-L] - Store comma seperated

2016-12-21 Thread Bill Downall
I got auto-corrected. Should have been LISTOF(colname) . (sent from Moto Z) On Dec 21, 2016 8:29 PM, "jan johansen" wrote: > Bill, > > Good point. > Let me explore one to many form. > > Jan > > > -----Original Message- > From: Bill Downall > T

Re: [RBASE-L] - Store comma seperated

2016-12-21 Thread Bill Downall
Relational purist that I am, I would use a many-side table with a row for each job function for an employee. Indexes would retrieve everybody with a particular job function quickly. And a "SELECT List of (colname)" would get you your comma-separated list if and when you need it. (sent from Moto Z

Re: [RBASE-L] - Simple SELECT statement: Bad Brains

2016-12-21 Thread Bill Downall
Create temp view MonthBreakout (EntryDate, EntryCount, EntryMonth) + AS SELECT EntryDate, EntryCount, (IMON(EntryDate)) + FROM tablename SELECT EntryMonth, SUM(EntryCount) from MonthBreakout + WHERE blah blah + GROUP BY EntryMonth On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Bruce Chitiea wrote: > Al

Re: [RBASE-L] - Printing opinions?

2016-11-08 Thread Bill Downall
And a 500 page PDF will overwhelm printer memory just as easily as a 500 page pcl stream. Bill On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Bill Downall wrote: > I think you have a good solution. Once you have the cursor set up, it will > be little effort to create and adjust a timing loop to wait f

Re: [RBASE-L] - Printing opinions?

2016-11-08 Thread Bill Downall
I think you have a good solution. Once you have the cursor set up, it will be little effort to create and adjust a timing loop to wait for the printer to catch up. A new printer, with a lot of memory and nice envelope handling, would probably cost little more than the time they would pay you for.

Re: [RBASE-L] - R prompt editing

2016-06-14 Thread Bill Downall
David, I don't think there is a way to do that, but you could create a simple grid-based form (named BuildingCost) and type "EDIT USING BuildingCost WHERE BuildingNumber='47' Bill On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Fitts, David A. wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > > > When I use a command like: >

Re: [RBASE-L] - speeding up searches in a view

2016-06-03 Thread Bill Downall
Mike, If you went to the grocery store intending to buy 3 items, and you knew ahead of time exactly where they were located, it would take you three or five minutes. If you went to a grocery store in a foreign country, where there were no signs over aisles that you could read, and things were arr

Re: [RBASE-L] - speeding up searches in a view

2016-06-02 Thread Bill Downall
Mike, An expression inside parentheses on the right sign of the operator in the condition is -- by design, I think -- not used for indexed retrieval, but for row-by-row comparisions. (On the other hand "WHERE (columnname > .vdate)" would be able to use an index. This is a very useful thing to kno

Re: [RBASE-L] - Building a variable name

2016-03-23 Thread Bill Downall
set var clrd TEXT = (.class + ctxt(.tround)) (sent from Moto X2) On Mar 23, 2016 9:07 PM, "dkfowler6179" wrote: > Using 9.5/32 latest version. > > I need to "build" a variable name using input from a user. An example of > what I'm looking for without the user input part is below. > > If variab