changing key size

Transpower at aol.com Transpower at aol.com
Mon Aug 30 17:09:29 PDT 2004


In a message dated 8/30/2004 7:30:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dave at PRIMUS.NET writes:

> >You could add a field denoting the origin of the data.
> 
>   
> 
> We considered this, but we think the application will break when it finds 
> two records corresponding to 10000, because it doesn’t know about the origin 
> field.  We want to avoid changing processing instructions during this phase.
> 
>   
> 
> Can you give any advice on how to write a script that adds a value to a 
> certain field in each row of a table?
> 
> 

Each "row" is a record.  When you create the free record in the file which 
will contain the data, you can (in the same process) add a value to a particular 
field (the key field) in the new record.

Regards,
RWS
transpower at aol.com
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