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    Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

    I'm getting the Error 20 messagebox while creating a fulltext index on a memo field on a large table.

    Where do I find the error reference info for error numbers and names?
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    Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

    can you give us an idea of the exact way you tried this. I had never thought of indexing a memo field, but someone probably has tried to or did it if it is possible.



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      Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

      Originally posted by stanlyn View Post
      I'm getting the Error 20 messagebox while creating a fulltext index on a memo field on a large table.

      Where do I find the error reference info for error numbers and names?
      Error Functions

      But I don't get a translation for error code 20.

      I just created a full text index on a memo field in a test table I have. Didn't get an error.

      Are you using define index and pressing the Full Text Search button or trying to build it your self? I used the button..
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        Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

        I used the define index and pressing the Full Text Search button then selecting the memo field.

        This is a production table that has about 650,000 records and each memo field contains about 2500 characters. It runs about 2-3 minutes before issuing the error.

        The table is good as I can filter the same memo field for some words and it completes without error. I am assuming that each record's memo field is scanned.

        How can I find the record number at the point the error 20 is generated, so I can look at that record?

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          Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

          But I don't get a translation for error code 20.
          Isn't there a error number and name reference in the help files so one could review them by either name or number? I saw some sort of code that speaks of translating, and if that is all that alpha has on its error codes, then I consider it weak in communicating error issues.

          How can I trap errors and gracefully recover from them? I need this as many time I can anticipate certain errors and I need to check for them in advance and then programitically do something about them...

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            Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

            My previous post was supposed to link to the error functions in the help file.

            To find a record that is causing your index error, you'll need to divide the table until you find the error. Use the copy operation and cut the file in half and see which half the error occurs in. Then keep dividing that part in half again until you get the record with the error.
            Al Buchholz
            Bookwood Systems, LTD
            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

            Occam's Razor - KISS
            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
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            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
            Albert Einstein

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              Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

              To find a record that is causing your index error, you'll need to divide the table until you find the error. Use the copy operation and cut the file in half and see which half the error occurs in. Then keep dividing that part in half again until you get the record with the error.
              You got to be kidding.......

              There is nothing wrong with the table as I have also verified if with fox by building a full text index on it...

              Isn't Alpha's full text indexing routine built with xbasix or A5 functions and calls so that a piece of code could be inserted into it that would allow output to a file, or echoed to the screen?

              Anyone care to write some code that would start ate the beginning of the table and traverse the table until the end while writing/appending the contents of the memo field to a log file with its record number. I'd do it myself, but it would take a long time to figure out this seamingly trival task... If the full text indexer worked as expected, we wouldn't be talking about this here.

              Thanks...

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                Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

                My previous post was supposed to link to the error functions in the help file.
                Thanks for that, however where is the list of possible errors and their associated remedies published.

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                  Re: Error 20 when Creating FullText Index

                  I tried building the full text index again in A5 and after 29% I get a different error...

                  "Can't add tag to compound index"

                  It did run longer this time...

                  Any ideas?

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