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- From: rkng@rd.hydro.on.ca (Ron Ng)
- Subject: Re: Paradox: table and index with different sort orders
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.171011.22226@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"
- References: <1993Jan22.144327.20234@rd.hydro.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:10:11 GMT
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- rkng@rd.hydro.on.ca (Ron Ng) writes:
- : gordon@chmeds.ac.nz writes:
- : : One of our users has many tables which he cannot access because of a common
- : : error: "table and index have different sort orders". This is probably because
- : : the files have been moved between different PCs with differently configured
- : : Paradox setups.
- : :
- : : Is there an easy way to fix this problem? The only suggestions I have so far
- : : involve reentering many sets of data manually. That has been described as
- : : character-building.
- : :
- : This problem was caused by two different PARADOX.SOR (or PDOXRUN.SOR if
- : you are using the runtime version) files residing in the two machines.
- : I recommend you to ask the user to remove the current PARADOX.SOR file
- : (or renaming it) and copy one of ASCII.SOR, INTL.SOR, NORDAN4.SOR,
- : NORDAN.SOR and SWEDFIN.SOR as PARADOX.SOR depending on which sort order
- : were used when installing Paradox in the machine where the tables are
- : copied from.
- :
- : Ron.K.Ng@hydro.on.ca
- :
- ... and remove the appropriate index files.
-