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<rss version="2.0"><channel><category>pcsoft.us.windev</category><copyright>Copyright 2026, PC SOFT</copyright><lastBuildDate>21 Jan 2015 13:39:06 Z</lastBuildDate><pubDate>28 Sep 2012 20:24:53 Z</pubDate><description>I've not yet played with this, so I'm asking the WD experts..&#13;
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In Clarion, I have a third party template that I can add to my application - it's job is to detect if an application update has changed the structure of one of the application's database files... if a change is detected (e.g. a field is added; an index is added; a field changed from a string to an integer; a field length has been lengthend; etc), a new empty table is created at runtime; the contents of the old table are migrated to the new table; the old table is renamed (to serve as a backup) and the new table is renamed to the old table's name, and a runtime error is stopped due to a data type mismatch. The template controls it all - within a few mouse clicks I can add that functionality and it takes no coding at all to benefit from this feature. Needless to say, this template is worth its weight in gold - it has saved me from having to write a dedicated "data transfer" application that has to be ran on every customer's machine..&#13;
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I know the WD IDE can / will do this - the $1,000,000 question is this: is a WD application capable of also detecting a change in the table schema when it opens the table and then doing the steps above, or will the WD application halt itself with a critical error and the application terminates?</description><ttl>30</ttl><generator>WEBDEV</generator><language>en_US</language><link>https://forum.pcsoft.fr/es-ES/pcsoft.us.windev/36933-clarification-sought-ability-change-data-structure-fly/read.awp</link><title>Clarification sought on WD's ability to change data structure "on the fly"</title><managingEditor>moderateur@pcsoft.fr (El moderador)</managingEditor><webMaster>webmaster@pcsoft.fr (El webmaster)</webMaster><item><author>vvido</author><category>pcsoft.us.windev</category><comments>https://forum.pcsoft.fr/es-ES/pcsoft.us.windev/36933-clarification-sought-ability-change-data-structure-fly-49983/read.awp</comments><pubDate>21 Jan 2015 13:39:06 Z</pubDate><description>I have exactly the same question (I guess this is a typical newbie question when switching from Clarion and FileManager).&#13;
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