Changing Key Size

[Transpower at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/30/2004 6:36:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dave at PRIMUS.NET writes:

> Hi, I’m new to filePro.  We have a customer who wants to merge 4 filePro 
> databases together (identical schemas).  There is a problem with the key fields 
> though, because each database started at 1.  So we want to prepend a value 
> to the keys in each table to make them unique.  So record 10000 would become 
> 110000 at location 1, and at location 2 10000 would become 210000.
> 
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> It looks like the first task is to change the schema for each table and 
> change “5 *” to “7 *” (widen the field).
> 
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> At first our customer asked us to write a script to edit the table/Key file 
> directly.  This seems like a bad idea because the file is not plain text and I
> ’m pretty sure we would corrupt it.
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> So I guess we have two options: 1) figure out filePro processing or 2) 
> export to csv, process the table with a script, re-import.
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> Can you give me some ideas where to start?  I’m confused on how to make a 
> filePro script that would cycle through all the records.
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> Is the $190 filePro book worth it?
> 
> 

With identical schemas, you can pick one database file and have the other 
three post all their records to it (lookup file free, copy file).  You could add 
a field denoting the origin of the data.

Regards,
RWS
transpower at aol.com
www.transpowercorp.com
Commercial and custom software manufactuing for engineering and management 
since 1976; SCO Authorized and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering
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