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  1. saravanakumar

    Determine Maximum Number of Characters that can be stored in CHARACTER Data Type?

    Yes, this made me understand better. Thanks for your quick reply my friend. In my case all the characters falls under ASCII range.
  2. saravanakumar

    Determine Maximum Number of Characters that can be stored in CHARACTER Data Type?

    Thanks everyone... Hi Kris, Can you please give a brief note on; With a multi-byte codepage (like UTF-8) this does not always match characters. I don't think i understood the above line... Sorry for that. Can you please help me?
  3. saravanakumar

    Determine Maximum Number of Characters that can be stored in CHARACTER Data Type?

    Hi Team, Might be a silly question... How can i determine the maximum number of characters that can be stored in a CHARACTER data type (Variable and DB field of type CHARACTER) as part of Progress 10.1C? Sometime back i remember i have seen in some document saying we can store 2000 characters...
  4. saravanakumar

    Can someone help me understand the diff b/w WRITE and REPLICATION-WRITE Trigger?

    Team, Can someone help me understand the diff between WRITE trigger and REPLICATION-WRITE Trigger? When i tried creating a record to REPLICATION table in WRITE trigger i was able to... If so what makes REPLICATION-WRITE trigger so special? It might be a silly question though. It would be...
  5. saravanakumar

    ACCESS Vs REFERENCE in XREF Utility

    Great.. Here is one such example; I agree...
  6. saravanakumar

    ACCESS Vs REFERENCE in XREF Utility

    Great.. Here is one such example; I agree...
  7. saravanakumar

    ACCESS Vs REFERENCE in XREF Utility

    I am not sure if we are on the same page. I am referring to the ACCESS and REFERENCE in XREF utility... "util/brg_ty.p" 17 "ACCESS" "mas.TERR" "TY-ID" "util/brg_ty.p" 12 "REFERENCE" "mas.TERR" "TY-ID" "util/brg_ty.p" 20 "REFERENCE" "mas.TERR" "" "util/brg_ty.p" 17 "SEARCH" "mas.TERR" "TY-1"...
  8. saravanakumar

    ACCESS Vs REFERENCE in XREF Utility

    Team, While using XREF utility i was little confused with the 2 below keywords. Could someone explain the difference between them? 1. ACCESS 2. REFERENCE In most cases both of them, are equal adn the only differece i could see is the keyword as below; "utility/bridge.p" 17 "ACCESS" "mas.TERR"...
  9. saravanakumar

    FILL METHOD of PRODATASET & XREF

    Hi Tamhas, I tried some simple program today and i don't think CREATE is reserved only for DB tables. Here is an extract from an XREF file where CREATE is used for temp-table also; I guess XREF utility needs to reflect the CREATE of temp table when FILL method is used on a Dataset. Do you agree?
  10. saravanakumar

    FILL METHOD of PRODATASET & XREF

    Team, When i take an XREF for the program that uses FILL method to create records for my table, i couldnt see an appropriate entry in XREF file with "CREATE" option in it. Is this a kind of bug in XREF tool or am i missing out something? dsProMain.p /* Include temp table component */...
  11. saravanakumar

    Error Message - 9287

    Sure Tom/RealHeavyDude... I will proceed with my analysis on the directions that you people have given and try to narrow down my issue in production.
  12. saravanakumar

    Error Message - 9287

    Team, In our Production environment we are getting error message 9287. I could see what the error message is all about... It is happening consistently across programs and modules. What could be the root cause of this issue? Any clues where i can start on?
  13. saravanakumar

    BEGINS Keyword Confuses

    Hi Tom, I hope i got the answer for the ques 2 that i was searching for... when i went through our forum today i found a similar kind of thread with an example... http://www.progresstalk.com/showthread.php?115018-Begins-begins-behave-diffrently I hope answers in the thread are correct. If Yes...
  14. saravanakumar

    BEGINS Keyword Confuses

    Hi Team, This is an 30 year OLD application and through out the application this is how they have followed. There is no possibility for even to think of changing the field formats and so on. Tom, Coming back to your question, There are Div Id like...
  15. saravanakumar

    BEGINS Keyword Confuses

    just now noticed one small correction, if i include space it gets trimmed in this forum. should be i dont no to use the proper option to include space. (if someone can help me out in that as well , i will be more happy) FIND div NO-LOCK WHERE div.custid EQ "X999" AND (div.id...
  16. saravanakumar

    BEGINS Keyword Confuses

    Yes, div.id = "ABCD" falls under div.custid = "X999"
  17. saravanakumar

    BEGINS Keyword Confuses

    Hi Team, I am not sure if am missing out something, may be... I have 2 questions; Question 1: I have a Division id field which is a character field that would right align if only the numeric characters are available in the input string, others will be left aligned. The Division Id value is...
  18. saravanakumar

    Delete a record in Write Trigger

    Thanks MaximMonin, fix is working fine.
  19. saravanakumar

    Delete a record in Write Trigger

    Hi Team, Here is the requirement - I don't want to create a record for a customer table if cust-id field has value as "" (BLANK). There are 2 existing triggers (create & write) for the same table; Create Trigger: TRIGGER PROCEDURE FOR CREATE OF customer. ASSIGN customer.create_dt = TODAY...
  20. saravanakumar

    Strange Behaviour with XREF

    I agree... The intent of posting this question is, whenever we get something different we used to try and play with different combination to find how exactly it works and it doesn't mean we don't know to use that functionality. The question was "Why it behaves so" and not "How to use it"? I am...
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