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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I see. So data written from the buffer to the table will be truncated losing the last character, with no warning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">To answer Lorri’s question: yes, the fields were also increased in length in the PH Dictionary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Bob Deskin [mailto:bob.deskin@unicomglobal.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> April-08-15 1:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lorry Litman; Thomson, Martyn; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Why no record size mismatch error?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">PowerHouse gets its schema information from the database. If you change a column, and it’s still consistent with what PowerHouse had, then there’s no error. PowerHouse writes and updates by column,
not by row/record as for indexed files. Just because the column buffer is now shorter than the column in the database doesn’t cause an error for a character field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lorry Litman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 08, 2015 4:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Thomson, Martyn'; <a href="mailto:powerh-l@lists.sowder.com">powerh-l@lists.sowder.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Why no record size mismatch error?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Hi Martin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">I gather the domain was changed in RDB, but, were the two fields affected changed in the PH dictionary?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">When the QTP program updates the RDB table, do all 10 characters get updated or perhaps just 9 of 10?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomson, Martyn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:powerh-l@lists.sowder.com">powerh-l@lists.sowder.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Why no record size mismatch error?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I increased the size of a domain from 9 to 10 chars. 2 fields use the domain and appear in 440+ tables.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why does a QTP procedure not recompiled in years still work? It’s accessing one of said tables and a view of another. Surely it should generate a runtime error?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OpenVMS 8.3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Powerhouse 8.40G<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oracle Rdb V7.2-501<o:p></o:p></p>
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