<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Bart,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply. As it turns out, upgrading to version 5.5.1 fixes the problem. I did not notice anything in the release notes indicating this, but it does work. </div><div><br></div><div>I also tried cloning my database and that fixed the problem without upgrading to 5.5.1. Somehow, my database was using UTF-16BE (maybe because it was created during the days of PPC?) and that was a problem. I cloned the database to use UTF-16 and the index problem went away.</div><div><br></div><div>I still have to upgrade to 5.5.1 because there was an issue with cloning a UTF-16BE database that was fixed for 5.5.1.</div><div><br></div><div>But, all's well that ends well!</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 30, 2013, at 3:16 AM, Bart Pietercil <<a href="mailto:bart.pietercil@cognosis.be">bart.pietercil@cognosis.be</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">Hi Steve,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">couple of things you might want to try:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">1) Does searching for LIKE ‘ZAS%’ produce a result?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">2) (gutfeeling) What happens if you define your method as concat(upper(lname),’ ‘,upper(fname)) ?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;">hth</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_sign_1388391139812281088" class="bloop_sign"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 13px;"></span>— <div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: red;">Our office will be closed on:</span></u></i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; color: red;">24 (afternoon) - <a href="tel://25 - 31/12/2013">25 - 31/12/2013</a> & <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-01-01%2012:00:00%20GMT+1">01/01/2014</a></span></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br>Bart Pietercil<br><span>Sent with aMac</span></div></div><br><p style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168);">On 27 Dec 2013 at 23:54:15, Steve Albin (<a href="mailto://steve@steve-albin.com">steve@steve-albin.com</a>) wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span>Using V4RB 5.3.4, I'm having problems updating a table and then doing a search for the record. <br><br>My table is basically a list of just under 10,000 person names. I have an method field called UpName and it is indexed. The method is simple: Upper(Concat(lname, ' ' , fName)). lname and fname are varchar fields of 512 length. <br><br>If I add a record with the last name low in the alphabet, it usually works fine. So, I add my name, "Steve Albin" and then do the following search: <br>SELECT * FROM tblNames WHERE UpName LIKE 'alb%' <br><br>This will work fine. But if I add a name with a higher letter in the alphabet, the search will not work. So, if I add "Ruslan Zasukhin" and then do this search: <br>SELECT * FROM tblNames WHERE UpName LIKE 'zas%' <br><br>the record will not be found. But once I reindex the database, the record will be found. <br><br>I think my question is, what are things I could look for in my schema that may cause this. I don't think I've found some Valentina bug, but instead I may have implemented something incorrectly. Problem is, I can't see what. <br><br>Maybe I should not use a method field for an index? I could create this field directly if I need to. <br><br>Thanks for any ideas. <br><br>Steve <br><br>-- <br>Steve Albin, Montclair, NJ <br><a href="http://www.steve-albin.com">http://www.steve-albin.com</a> <br>http://www.jazzdiscography.com <br><br>_______________________________________________ <br>Valentina mailing list <br><a href="mailto:Valentina@lists.macserve.net">Valentina@lists.macserve.net</a> <br><a href="http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina">http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina</a> <br></span></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Valentina mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Valentina@lists.macserve.net">Valentina@lists.macserve.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina">http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>