Cloning question reposted

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/2/10 2:07 PM, "william humphrey" <bill at bluewatermaritime.com> wrote:

Hi William,

> OK - when I have time I am posting this to Mantis. The menu command in Vstudio
> for "clone a database" needs lots of work.

> You cannot clone a database without
> first making a database to copy the clone to.

No, this is false asumption.

Db.Clone()  as well as db.Create()
creates new db files


> And then you have to make a path
> to that database and paste it into the window for "clone" operation. This is
> not how our Vstudio should work!

I think this is wrong ...

 
> So ignore that zipped file I sent you as I finally successfully cloned it and
> fixed it. 
> 
> Interestingly the new database, after cloning, is 38.7 mb while the old
> damaged one was 40.9 mb. I hope that doesn't mean that I've lost some records.

Some losts can be if db was corrupted,
But less size is normal for clone even on good dbs,
because removed e.g. Deleted records.


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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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