mike@dhw68k.cts.com (Michael J. Cleary) (05/11/88)
In response to your quiry about merging databases... There are many ways to address your situation. I will relay the easiest two. If the new field is at the end of your record, a simple merge of small db into large db will do. If the new field is not at the end of your record, clone the small db into the large format, and then merge the large db into the 'cloned' db. -- Michael J. Cleary
olson@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (05/13/88)
PC-File+ merge adds records to the end of the file, so merge is not the answer. However the newest version of PC-File+ has relational capabilities - you may access data from more than one file. I have not tried to create a new file this way (getting fields from 2 files), but I have printed reports containing information from 2 files, so it should work. I suggest the original poster contact Buttonware for help.
mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael R. Volow) (05/18/88)
As the original poster of the merging-two-PCFile+-databases-side-by side (whew!) question, we did contact Buttonware. As you suggest, one can pint a report containing field from twodatabases by relational lookup. But this is different than actually merging two databases containing ifferent variables on the same individuals. I hope Buttonware will offer this in the future. Michael Volow, M.D. Dept of Psychiatry, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27705 919 286 0411 mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP