More FoxPro questions

About a month ago, I wrote asking for some help with
FoxPro and ADO 2.5. I am having trouble with INSERTs
over 255 characters and also with transactions.

Some kind soul recommended linking my FoxPro tables into
Access and using Jet engine to access them. I would
appreciate any pointers into how to do this from that
kind soul.

Sincerely,
Erik Shepard

[dcarlson]

I know Visual FoxPro has a memo field if FoxPro has it use it in your database for fields over 255 chars. As for Transactions I'm not sure if FoxPro supports them.

[dcarlson]

This is pretty odd. I posted a reply to your problem only to come across the same problem a few months later.

I was wondering if you solved the memo problem of 255 chars or more. If so could you please help me out.

My problem is that I can't add over 255 characters to a memo field.

Thanks

The problem that I had was with using SQL to update a
MEMO field with a text string over 255 characters; the
text string would be truncated. The solution that I
finally went with was to use a recordset (or persist
the recordset that I retrieved the data with in the first
place). It appeared to work fine to write the 255+
character string to recordset field and then update back
to the table rather than using SQL to directly update the
table.

Good luck,
Erik

[dcarlson]

What a piece of crap.

I got it working, it's not exactly what I wanted but it does the job.

Thanks.

    Set rstTemp = New ADODB.Recordset
    rstTemp.Open "transtable", fCnn1, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdTable
    
    With rstTemp
        .AddNew
        lngI = 0
        lngSize = Len(strQuery)
        Do While lngI < lngSize
            strChunk = Left(Right(strQuery, lngSize - lngI), 255)
            !querystring.AppendChunk strChunk
            lngI = lngI + 255
        Loop
        !querydate = Now
        !region = strRegion
        !id = lngID
        .Update
    End With