I was thinking. I have two mac os laptops. One of them has the latest beta of vServer and I did some work on the database on that system and then copied it back here so maybe that affected it. <br><br>Diagnose says database OK. I just re-indexed the database and that solved the problem. thanks for the suggestion.<div>
<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ivan Smahin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ivan_smahin@paradigmasoft.com" target="_blank">ivan_smahin@paradigmasoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:42 PM, william humphrey <<a href="mailto:bill@bluewatermaritime.com" target="_blank">bill@bluewatermaritime.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">I have been using "ORDER BY" to sort a field which has dates in the format yyyy-mm-dd for years now and just today it sorts it like this (with "ORDER BY DESC):<div><br></div><div>
2006-02-15</div><div>2005-03-15</div>
<div>2013-01-24</div><div>2012-05-17</div><div>2012-05-10</div><div><br></div><div>What is going on?</div><div><br></div><div>I tested other sorts including recID and they work. Also that weird sort is not dependent on recID</div>
<div><br></div><div>The above should have sorted:</div><div><br></div><div>2013-01-24</div><div>2012-05-17</div><div>2012-05-10</div><div>2006-02-15</div><div>2005-03-15</div></blockquote><br></div></div></div><div>What about database diagnose and reindex in case of problems?</div>
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