I'm having some trouble importing data into a new Base database. I've
had a database in a Windows program for many years and want to move it
to something I can use on either my Mac (Tiger) or Linux, so Base seems
like a good choice. In following the tutorial on the NeoOffice wiki at
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/To_Base_and_Back_Again, I did the
following:
1. exported the data from my Windows application to a csv file
2. opened the csv file using OOO Calc
3. copied the rows from Calc (there are 664 records, or rows)
4. pasted the data into the Base table previously set up
The problem is that during the pasting, I'm getting an error message and
not all the rows are showing up in the Base file. The error is about
"Violation of unique constraint SYS_PK_61: duplicate value(s) for
columns..." and is viewable at
http://s1019.photobucket.com/albums/af313/mareich/computer/?action=view¤t=ishot-7.jpg
Each time I try to paste the data, I get a varying number of records in
the Base file. One time it will be over 400 rows, another time 580,
another time less.
I haven't yet slogged through the Base table to identify all the missing
records, but at first glance they don't seem to be anything
remarkable. Some are early in the file, others later. Also, if I
copy a single record from the Calc file and try to paste that into the
Base data, Base acts like it's working but nothing is pasted in the Base
table. The error seems to refer to duplicate records in a date field,
but the first record in the Calc sheet has a unique value in that field,
and it isn't being pasted into Base.
If I delete the key in the database (to avoid the duplicate value
error), the paste operation results in a warning message about java (see
http://i1019.photobucket.com/albums/af313/mareich/computer/ishot-8.jpg).
In this case, only about 24 records are pasted.
I'm mystified as to what's going on and if anyone can offer sugestions,
I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to be able to use Base so I can
abandon my Windows database. TIA.
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