Different results

[lifesupport]

We have a marketing app that crunches data thru several select statements and a few computations and outputs a report. The app is producing different results on different machines. What would be the cause for this? We make sure we had the same exact data and the same exact executable, yet different results.

 

[mmerlinn]

First thing I would check is to see if you have OTHER FoxPro programs that run on your machines that have older builds.

I have run into newer apps that call older PROCS/FUNCTIONS left over from other runs of other FoxPro apps.

Solution is to rebuilt ALL FP apps whenever you make a change to ANY app.

mmerlinn

http://mmerlinn.com

"We've found by experience that people who are careless and sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at thinking and coding. Answering questions for careless and sloppy thinkers is not rewarding." - Eric Steven Raymond

 

[Mike Lewis]

Lifesupport,

The app is producing different results on different machines.

Can you put your finger on what's different about the different machines? Maybe different versions of Windows? Or, perhaps, on some machines the executable is stored locally, whereas others might get it from a server?

Also, are you sure it's the same version of the app on the various machines? And the same runtime files? And the same version of VFP?

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[SnyAc]

Another question to ask in the diagnosis is can you consistently get the same different results on the different machines? If not, it's probably not a hardware/operating system issue, but an issues the select statements and environment....

Andy Snyder
SnyAc Software Services

http://www.snysoft.com

Hyperware Inc. a division of AmTech Software

http://www.hyperwareinc.com

 

[TamarGranor]

MMerlin - what you're describing can only be relevant if you're running in the VFP IDE. If they're separate EXEs, they can't affect each other that way.

Tamar

 

[alvechurchdata]

If they're separate EXEs, they can't affect each other that way.

Might they be reading from different Config files and picking up different settings for something like ANSI or EXACT?

Geoff Franklin

http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk

 

[craigber]

Make sure SET ANSI, SET EXACT, and SET DELETED are the same on all machines.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com/blog