Re: Re: RE: Re: Crash while running report

Hi Wiebe,

On my oldest DP application I have never successfully been able to do the 
"Big Clean". I tried it a few times but I had a few peculiarities, so I 
dumped the idea of the "Big Clean".  Very fortunately though it has never 
had an issue that made it imperative, so with a few million records and 15 
years behind it, I think I have probably been lucky.

One thing I usually do when I have any flakey behaviour in an application is 
run DPDiag. It is so easy to little errors to creep in, and especially to 
have mismatches in field specifications across panel and data links, or to 
have deleted fields that are required by a report. I generally find that 
correcting the errors found by DPDiag tames a recalcitrant program.

Regards
Brian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wiebe Cazemier" <halfgaar-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dataperf-Ii8YPGKeNuMyuW1uK6fEew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:35 PM
Subject: [Dataperf] Re: RE: Re: Crash while running report


> On Friday 30 November 2007 15:03, Don Friedman wrote:
>
> > Wiebe - I've had experiences like you're describing and doing "the big
> > clean" generally helps. I swear that a piece of lint gets into the data
> > somewhere and screws things up. It has been some time since this has
> > happened to me but I remember that when I exported the data and scanned 
> > it
> > there were some ascii codes in there that shouldn't have been there are
> > removing them cleared things up.
> >
> > Don
>
> I've just done the Big Clean, but it didn't help, unfortunately. It fails 
> at
> the same point. However, I don't think it's because of a specific card,
> because when I remove the card, it fails at a different ponit.
>
> I also tried not running DP with /w (to output in the latin1 character 
> set),
> which I normally use. It didn't make a difference.
>
> BTW, is there any risk in doing a Big Clean? I noticed that some things 
> are
> different: the first report ("Built-In Short Reports") used to have a 
> dutch
> name, now it's English. Not that that's a problem, it's just different. 
> Also,
> when outputting a report to a file, the output also used to be written to 
> the
> screen, but that doesn't happen anymore.
>
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