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- BORLAND SQL LINKS FOR WINDOWS TIPS
- FOR dBASE 5.0 FOR WINDOWS USERS
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-
-
- This file contains important, late-breaking information
- about Borland SQL Links that apply only to dBASE for
- Windows users.
-
- For general, late-breaking information on Borland SQL
- Links for Windows, see READLINK.TXT.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- GENERAL INFORMATION
- -------------------
-
- INDEXING ONE OR MORE FIELDS WHEN USING CREATE TABLE. When
- you use CREATE TABLE to create a new SQL table and place
- an index on one or more fields in the dialog, dBASE
- creates separate indexes on each field in the index. The
- Create dialog does not create a unique index.
-
- If you want to assign indexes to a new SQL table, do one
- of the following:
-
- - Save the table and then assign the indexes manually,
- using a command with the format:
-
- USE tablename EXCLUSIVE
- INDEX ON column1,column2 TAG tagname UNIQUE
-
- - Use SQLEXEC() to create a server-specific index with
- SQL statements, such as the following Sybase statement:
-
-
- SQLEXEC ("create unique index indexName on tableName
- (col1,col2)")
-
-
- MODIFYING DBASEWIN.INI TO SHOW SQL SYSTEM TABLES. If
- you modify the [Desktop] section of your DBASEWIN.INI
- file so ShowSystemTables equals one (1), the dBASE
- Navigator respects this setting. The tables are always
- visible when you execute the DIR command.
-
-
- SUPPORT FOR ODBC DRIVERS. This release of dBASE for
- Windows is not certified for use with vendor-supplied
- ODBC drivers.
-
-
-
- INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
- --------------------
-
- CHOOSING A LANGUAGE DRIVER. If you are an international
- customer, be sure to choose a global language driver
- whose character set matches the character set of your
- SQL language driver. In many cases Borland does not
- provide a global language driver with the character set
- required for certain SQL tables; for example, language
- drivers allowing access to HP Roman 8, any ANSI SQL
- data, or to most UNIX data. For a discussion of what
- language drivers do and how to choose one correctly, see
- the Borland SQL Links Getting Started manual.
-
- Failure to match language drivers correctly can cause
- the display of "garbage" characters in your SQL data. If
- you then attempt to change the data, corruption can re-
- sult. For example, if you have a German 850 global
- language driver installed and you access Sybase 850 SQL
- tables, you can read and write the extended characters
- correctly. However, if you try to access Sybase 437
- SQL tables, some data will be visible but it will include
- a lot of "garbage" characters. If you try to change it,
- the data will be corrupted. In this release, dBASE can
- neither detect nor prevent such actions.
-
-
- USING SEEK AND FIND. When used against international data,
- the SEEK and FIND functions both behave as if EXACT is
- turned on. This means that secondary entries are not
- retrieved; if there are any duplicate entries in the
- database they are not located.
-
-
-
- INFORMIX DRIVER
- ---------------
-
- This release of dBASE for Windows is not certified to run
- with the SQL Link Informix driver.
-
-
-
- INTERBASE DRIVER
- ----------------
-
- No issues for this release.
-
-
-
- ORACLE DRIVER
- -------------
-
- WORKING WITH NUMERIC FIELDS IN DBASE-TO-ORACLE COPIED
- TABLES. When a dBASE table is copied to an Oracle table,
- any numeric data is created as an Oracle NUMBER field
- with no precision or scale. Oracle's NUMBER datatype
- can handle floating point numbers with up to 38 digits
- of precision.
-
-
- USING SQLEXEC() WITH PARADOX-TO-ORACLE COPIED TABLES.
- When you query an Oracle database and your target is a
- table that was copied from Paradox to Oracle, be sure
- to place quotes around all mixed-case column names.
-
-
- CHANGING RECORDS AND BROWSING. When you replace an
- Oracle character string with an empty (blank) string
- and then browse, dBASE appears to display duplicate
- records. This is a visual problem only; the records
- are not really duplicated. If you then attempt to
- modify one of these "duplicate" records while in
- BROWSE mode, you may receive the error message
- "Record/Key deleted."
-
- To eliminate the "duplicate" records, close the browse
- window and REFRESH the screen. Then re-enter BROWSE
- mode.
-
-
-
- SYBASE DRIVER
- -------------
-
- USING INSERT TRIGGERS THAT CONTAIN THE RAISERROR
- MESSAGE. If you use a Sybase table with an insert
- trigger that uses RAISERROR, a KeyViolation Error always
- follows the Raiserror message. This prevents users from
- inserting any records from that point afterward.
-