Blob Fields

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 2/12/03 1:15 PM, Barney at barney at custombased.com wrote:

>> So you already have distributed dbs.
>> Okay...
>> 
>> Am I right that you want add new feature to your app?
> 
> Yes
> 
>> Then you still need to use classes of course.
> 
> I don't normally use classes in my app.  I just have one main
> one as MyDatabase. From here everything is done via SQL and a cursor.
> 
> Still, I can use them temporarily in a method etc and do this throughout
> my app in places.
> 
>> And if you need add some field on the fly, consider using of additional
>> special table for this.
> 
> OK
>> 
>> And I do not understand, why you want delete that picture field ?
>> Why it cannot exists always?
>> But you add/remove pictures?
> 
> Yep that's fine. I just thought it might tidy things up nicely to get rid of
> things again. Particularly the extra file sitting on the disk as this is
> sure to confuse users when they go to back up etc. This function might only
> be used by users every now and again.
> 
> I've been unable to find anything in the doc's about creating this second
> data file on the fly without creating another database ?
> 
> Closest I've found is V4RB Reference page 25 but this does not create the
> data file ?

Barney,

You MUST NOT create .blb file self !!!

Valentina will create it AS ONLY as you add at least one BLOB field into
your db. Everything is easy. It seems you try to think in hard way.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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