Re: NewEra database update hassles

At 12:48 AM 4/2/95 GMT, Kerry Sainsbury wrote: }I'm trying to learn NewEra in my "spare" time (Sundays!) and am having }problems making my database changes permanent. [clipped] }- "Next Row"/"Previous Row"/"Query"/"Retrieve"/"Insert Row"/"Apply Row" } your little heart out. Change anything you like. Everything looks great } until you quit the program and then re-run it. All my old data comes back! } }I *know* I've missed something utterly fundamental, but I can't spot what. }Do I need some kind of "commit" gizmo or something? New Era requires that your database is logging transactions. NewEra, while it make this requirement, does provide any logging syntax in the generated code (begin work, commit/rollback work). Therefore, when you exit the application, all your work is "rolled back". Implicit begin work is executed after a commit or rollback, but these latter two must be coded, or, well you know....... Jon }Thanks, }Kerry S } }BTW: The NewEra mailing list is on hold until I can find some mailing list } software (which is being delayed by a lack of ftp access at the moment). } There is a strong interest in such a mailing list, and if somebody with } more net access than I wants to implement one I can give you the names of } those interested in being on the list) } }kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz } } ================================================================== Jon Vemo Internet: jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch out for road-kill on the information superhighway....SPLAT!! ==================================================================