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Timas
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Joined: 05 Jan 2003
Posts: 39
Location: Netherlands

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:10 am   

Database issues
 
Hey folks,

I've slowly been starting to mess with the database thing in zMUD, never saw a need for it before but I'm starting to run out of things to play with, so anyways..

I made a database (test), in this database I made two fields, name and extra, I entered some random values in to make a few records

I type:
#LOOPVIEW {#SHOW &Name,&extra}

I get:
Timas,rian
Airelle,Rose
Kariwyn,Serandell
Vlemar,Rellian


So far so good.

Now I type:
#QUERY (timas = &Name)

I get:
No records found in view All

True, I did a capital T for Timas in the DB.. so, query is empty now I'd like to clear it and see the complete list again..

I do:
#DBRESET
#LOOPVIEW {#SHOW &name,&extra}


I get:


Nothing. It doesn't remove the query.. I've been looking through the helpfiles and scripts earlier posted for databases here on the forums but I can't find the why or how..

Any help or suggestions would grearly be appreciated.
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Rorso
Wizard


Joined: 14 Oct 2000
Posts: 1368

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:53 pm   
 
quote:
Originally posted by Timas

Hey folks,

I've slowly been starting to mess with the database thing in zMUD, never saw a need for it before but I'm starting to run out of things to play with, so anyways..

I made a database (test), in this database I made two fields, name and extra, I entered some random values in to make a few records

I type:
#LOOPVIEW {#SHOW &Name,&extra}

I get:
Timas,rian
Airelle,Rose
Kariwyn,Serandell
Vlemar,Rellian


So far so good.

Now I type:
#QUERY (timas = &Name)

I get:
No records found in view All

True, I did a capital T for Timas in the DB.. so, query is empty now I'd like to clear it and see the complete list again..

I do:
#DBRESET
#LOOPVIEW {#SHOW &name,&extra}


I get:


Nothing. It doesn't remove the query.. I've been looking through the helpfiles and scripts earlier posted for databases here on the forums but I can't find the why or how..

Any help or suggestions would grearly be appreciated.


This might be a bug in zMUD. Please send an email to support@zuggsoft.com explaining the issue.
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LightBulb
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Joined: 28 Nov 2000
Posts: 4817
Location: USA

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:08 pm   
 
Three suggestions. I don't know if any of them will make a difference or not.
1. Use the same case, Timas
2. Use double-quotes to indicate that Timas is a string, "Timas"
3. Use the same order demonstrated in the #QUERY examples, database field first, compared value second.

Putting all those suggestions together, the new query would be:
#QUERY (&Name = "Timas")
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Rorso
Wizard


Joined: 14 Oct 2000
Posts: 1368

PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:18 pm   
 
quote:
Originally posted by LightBulb

Three suggestions. I don't know if any of them will make a difference or not.
1. Use the same case, Timas
2. Use double-quotes to indicate that Timas is a string, "Timas"
3. Use the same order demonstrated in the #QUERY examples, database field first, compared value second.

Putting all those suggestions together, the new query would be:
#QUERY (&Name = "Timas")


The problem was that #DBRESET doesn't reset the view.
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Timas
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Joined: 05 Jan 2003
Posts: 39
Location: Netherlands

PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:20 am   
 
I've been playing and testing a bit more.. I got halfa workaround using the %query function instead but I still can't get #DBRESET to work (properly?).

Mailed support as Rorso mentioned, thanks for the suggestions tho, they did get me further on the road :)

Timbo
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