Hello, Tupy...!

Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 11:23:47 PM, you wrote:


Tn> Dear Friends,

Tn> We have a table with 60 rows where a not null type SmallInt column has 0 (zero) as content.
Tn> When restoring, GBak returns null for this column. As this column
Tn> is not null, we get an error message (Error: Validation error for column .....).

Tn> Between these two steps (backup and restore), no further action is done with the backup file.

Tn> I ask you = What can cause this problem? Is there any solution
Tn> for this? Any idea about this problem?

1. somebody altered column to not null default 0 while column had null data
2. somebody added column not null default 0.

solution - update that column to 0 like this
update table
set field = 0

p.s. gbak backups data, it does not check correspondence of data and
constraints. If it is broken (somehow, by db corruption or by actions
I mentioned), restore will show that column data does not correspond
to it's check.

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Dmitry Kuzmenko, www.ib-aid.com