[ale] hard drive and databases and missing data

[mpdickens at tlanta.com (Marvin Dickens)]

On 15 Mar 2003 22:26:14 -0500
"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote the following:

 
> Earlier the missing data symptom was shown to have been caused by a
> user-unfriendly bug in procedure. That was solved by having properly
> trained people on the keyboard. Now it appears to be random data loss
> from the database. There are two fields that are always populated OK.
> The remaining 35 are either all intact or all blank.


This sounds like broken proceedure in the  sql programming and not user input errors. It sounds like the data variable that contains the date has some code in the loop that somehow overwrites the data in the variable or else is reseting the data variable to empty.

Best regards


Marvin Dickens
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