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  • Ted Giles
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    Re: Shadow database - not working properly

    Couple of questions.
    1. Have you recreated the indeces.
    2. Is the new version a simple " lift and shift" of the original.

    Losing data is usually associated with crapola indeces. Try a reindex. If you can see the data afterwards, it's a coding issue. If not it's an infrastructure issue.
    All are resolvable.

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  • MoGrace
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    Re: Shadow database - not working properly

    Hi Judith,

    Just a hunch, but have you checked that the server files are not shadowed? I have had this happen when trying to copy updated files to the server from my development copy. It can get tricky...

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  • Larry Gordon
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    Re: Shadow database - not working properly

    Hi Judith,

    You have my sympathy. I too am still an Alpha amateur and I know how frustrating it can get when you can't resolve an issue.

    Are you saying the database still works correctly on the standalone PC but not on the server? If that is the case it would obviously point to your server/network setup. What do you mean by 'shared server' and what operating system is the server running? Presumably you still have your developer on a PC with just the data files on the server. Have you had many instances of Alpha crashing/freezing?

    Just clutching at straws, is there much difference now between the database total file size on the server compared with the original standalone database?

    Sorry its all questions and no answers!

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  • Judith
    started a topic Shadow database - not working properly

    Shadow database - not working properly

    Hi,

    Some of you will already know that I have recently moved our customer/invoicing database to a shared server with 4 pc's having a run time applications. The database consists of tables and sets and the set I am having problems with is the most important. It is for raising invoices. A colleague enters the person/company details saves the record then clicks a button for a new invoice. They go on to enter the invoice details and the record is saved again. A checking sheet is printed and checked back to the booking, an invoice is printed as a pdf and emailed, an entry is made in a memo field to say the invoice has been sent. All works fine BUT when we go back to the data, the customer details are there but no invoice, it doesn't matter which computer I check it on or if I go through the developers licence straight to the server, the invoices have disappeared. It isn't happening all the time and up to today had not happened before. We have been entering the data twice prior to today. Once on the old system and again on the server to check that everything was working ok and it was.

    As you can probably guess I'm not an IT person, just an admin person who has managed to work with Alpha Software for some 15 years now, I must be a slow learner

    Any advice would be really appreciated, I'm at home now but can't get this out of my head.

    Judith
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