Archive for the ‘Flex2SQL’ Category

Flex2SQL Conversion Stops

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

In using Flex2SQL for record transfer, it stops without any apparent errors before completion. The problem was due to the DATE_ACQ field, more specifically the value of a leap year (for example, 2-29-1900). DataFlex does not care about leap years, but other databases do. The problem is solved by modifying the errant dates.

Calling a Stored Procedure Passing and Receiving a Date

Monday, February 18th, 2008

The DataFlex date format isn’t compatible with MS SQL. You must to change the way as argument is passed and/or is received.

Take a look at this sample program. You may see that the variable is declared as a string, but should be date. I’m changing the date format before call stored procedure:

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Trouble Loading DLL on Linux

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

The error is generated when a driver cannot be loaded by DataFlex. There could be multiple reasons for this:
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‘Error ORA-00942′ During Migration

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

This error happens when the user doesn’t have DBA rights, Flex2SQL requires DBA role when converting the table, if not, then the error: “Error : ORA-00942: table or view does not exist” comes up. Flex2SQL performs a select to some views to get information from server to use it to convert tables.