| Title: | Borland Delphi conference |
| Moderator: | BROUGH::DAVIES |
| Created: | Tue Mar 12 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri May 30 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 33 |
| Total number of notes: | 110 |
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 19.1 | JGODCL::WINPENNY | Wed Nov 27 1996 11:00 | 11 | ||
| 19.2 | 4262::WRAY | John Wray, Distributed Processing Engineering | Thu Mar 13 1997 17:33 | 7 | |
> It all seems too confusing to be sensible to me.
Creating the lowest table version that supports the features you ask
for gives your tables maximum portability across different versions of
Paradox.
John
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| 19.3 | 45080::CWINPENNY | Thu May 15 1997 18:10 | 10 | ||
I figured that out but I'd liked to have seen some consistency and some
option to make the decision myself. Once there is a version x table
there really isn't any point in having a version x-1 table. The
confusion originally arose when making constraints between tables and
the BDE getting it's knickers in a twist saying some fields didn't
exist, if the tables had been the same then I might not have spent time
thinking that maybe that was the problem.
Chris
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| 19.4 | 4262::WRAY | John Wray, Distributed Processing Engineering | Thu May 15 1997 19:36 | 18 | |
> I figured that out but I'd liked to have seen some consistency and some
> option to make the decision myself. Once there is a version x table
> there really isn't any point in having a version x-1 table.
That's true if you have a single application that uses all your tables.
In general, though, a database may be used by multiple different
applications, and each application may use a different subset of the
tables within the database.
I wouldn't want one application's creation of a V7 table to break my
existing applications that are built using Paradox V4 (which never
access the V7 table).
But I agree that allowing the version to be specified would be useful.
In fact, I thought you could specify the version (although I've never
tried to do this, so I could easily be wrong).
John
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| 19.5 | 45080::CWINPENNY | Thu May 15 1997 20:32 | 5 | ||
You can specify the version but if you don't use the features of that
version it knocks it down for you.
Chris
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