Claudio Valderrama C. wrote:

>Jonathan Neve wrote:
>
>
>>After
>>all, surely the engine should easily be able to know what it was
>>trying to do when it failed...
>>
>>
>
>(Lord, forgive him he doesn't know what he's saying...)
>
>

Ok, I get your point. But please avoid abusing Biblical phrases in this
way...

>>Another example is that of a union. Since unions require that the
>>columns from each select statement be of exactly the same type, an
>>error message is issued if ever this is not so.
>>
>>
>
>I think that Arno enhanced that place to be more forgiving.
>
>

Ok, I guess I must have been comparing to IB 6. Sorry about that.

>>This very helpful
>>error message is "Data type unknown"! This tells us practically
>>nothing. It just means that some column is wrong somewhere. It would
>>be nice to know which one.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, it's a frustrating error. If I was MS tech support, I would tell you to
>avoid unions until the next SP.
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>

:-)

>Again, I have to ask: when you express your concerns, what's the server
>version you are using as an example?
>
>

IB 6 or FB 1.5. I use FBServerToggler, so I'm not always using the same
one... Perhaps some of the things I said actually only apply to IB 6.

Regards,
Jonathan Neve.


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