Re: problems with dbaccess

On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:17:59 -0300, "Martin A. Marques" <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> > wrote: > > > > >I have a little question related with dbaccess. > >When I try to do some things with dbaccess, like alter table (for example), I > >put add a new row, it asks for a name for the row, and then asks for the row > >type. The problem is that I get something like this: > > > > Char Numeric Serial Date Money date-Time ... > > > >I would like to add a BOOLEAN type column, and I don't now how to select it, > >because I don't see it. I had this problem befor with dbaccess, and resolved > >it guessing, but didn't have that luck this time. > > Besides Obnoxio's perfectly valid answer, if you couldn't figure it out > w/the dbaccess menus, then you could have just used SQL > (look in the SQL syntax manual for 'alter table') in the Query window. The problem was that I was reading the manuales that are on the web, so looking for a boolean data type, couldn't find it, because my version of informix (7.30) doesn't have it (time for an upgrade). That was all. ;-) Thanks -- "And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - Melvin Udall ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mart'n Marqu's email: martin@math.unl.edu.ar Santa Fe - Argentina http://math.unl.edu.ar/~martin/ Administrador de sistemas en math.unl.edu.ar -----------------------------------------------------------------