Re: Scanning through the tables in a database

Author: Michael Glassman

Posted: 2015-03-01 at 15:26:49

Why not copy the records with ObjectType = “Table” into a free table, close the .dbc table, then do a record count on each file listed in the free table?

Mike

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From: Joe Yoder

Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 1:53 PM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: Scanning through the tables in a database

I want to get the number of records in each of the tables in a database.

When I open the .dbc file as a table I can scan for ObjectType = 'Table'

and get the names but when I try to do a "select cnt(*) from (objectname)

into array Cnt" I get the message that "The database for table ... could

not be opened. Would you like to try to locate the owning database or

delete the link (and free the table)?

Apparently if the DBC is open as a table it cannot be opened as a database

and the system will not let a file linked to a database be opened if the

database cannot be opened as well.

There are a number of workarounds that I can think of but I'm wondering -

Is there is a way to scan through the files in a database while the DBC is

open as a database?

Thanks in advance,

Joe

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