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    Need Help regarding Out of Memory

    I'm not sure what's going on. My application has been running fine for 8 months. I make a few changes and now I'm doing nothing but chasing after issues.

    I reverted back to original design but Alpha is not reacting the same as it used to.

    I don't read anyone else reporting these types of issues. This has been going on for about 2 weeks now.

    This is important, who can I turn to for support.

    I have made changes to table structures before without a problem, add, change, delete fields, no problem. Now I try to make a change to a table and I get an out of memory error. What's that all about. Never had this before.

    I reinstalled Alpha without a patch and if I start my app, I get warnings when opening my forms. After I do a patch the warnings disappear and the forms open fine.

    I go to change my table structures and I get the out of memory error.


    It is not my OS because I have tried this on 3 computers. Each one gives the same response. Out of Memory.



    Upon further investigation, I'm finding that some tables can be changed while others cannot. So that shows it's not the applicaiton but more so the contents of the table.
    What kind of anomalie would attach itself to a table to make it behave in this manner.
    Is it possible that the configuration of a field rule or the contents of a piece of data would affect it in this manner.

    Is there a utility that can check the validity of a table structure.
    Last edited by Chuck Bytes; 09-09-2010, 10:52 PM. Reason: More Info
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    Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

    Charles, you might review the rules for fieldnames in table structures. Perhaps you're using illegal characters in a fieldname and have corrupted your table. You also might review the list of "reserved words" that Alpha uses for its own purposes, and which we're not supposed to use in our apps. Perhaps you're using a reserved word as a fieldname in your table structure.

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      #3
      Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

      If you have a "memo" type field in your table, check out the size of the ".ftp" file associated with the table. We just had an incident where the memo file (.ftp) had blown out to 2GB instead of 10 MB. Every once in a while, memos can tend to blow out and need to be fixed or restored to a normal state.

      Tom

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        #4
        Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

        Start out with the basics:
        1-Compact the database
        2-Rebuild the indices

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          #5
          Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

          Tom,
          Sure enough, there's the FTP at almost 1.8Gig

          I wish I could reach through this screen and shake your hand in thanks.

          I never would have thought to look at that as an option. Funny thing is I didn't really do anything I was aware of to fix it.

          I deleted the large file and reponed the DB which gave me all types of errors, then I extracted that one table from a previous version and it worked fine

          I don't know what to say other than THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH

          I was at the point of giving up.

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            #6
            Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

            Hi All,

            I get the same error time after time and am begining to pull my hair out over this continual error.

            Why does Alpha not fix what is causing this to happen?

            Ant.

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              #7
              Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

              Why does Alpha not fix what is causing this to happen?
              I'm curious Ant....have you or someone else you know reported this as a bug with a reproducible way to create the issue? If not then perhaps this answers your question.
              Mike
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                #8
                Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

                Ant-Tech,

                It's possible you've stumbled into a bug. It's also possible you're misusing commands or statements that result in the behavior you're getting. There may be nothing for alpha to fix. Are you working with memo field data when the problem occurs? Are you following the guidelines recommended in "Memos and Browses that work" at www.learn alpha.com? What steps have you taken to try to solve the problem? What can you tell us about your system? your database? any memo fields or files?

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                  #9
                  Re: Need Help regarding Out of Memory

                  Double Ditto on Tom's statement
                  If you using memos (of any kind) on a multi-user app, and not following the rules for using memos in the link in Tom's email, it is highly predictable you will have periodic to frequent corruption.
                  Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
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