Hi all
According to the help: This error is generated when sort key truncation is about to occur, typically during GROUP BY, ORDER BY or other sorting operations. This can happen with use of a sort key that contains an expression, such as a Memo field, whose length is not fixed.
The problem manifests itself when executing the following SQL (sorry about the length of the statement):
Select Str(Nh_Year,4,0) + Str(Nh_Period,2,0)+ Transform(NH_YEAR) + Transform(NH_NACNT) + Transform(NH_PERIOD) As Key, ; Nh_Year, Nh_Period,Str(Nh_Year,4,0) + '/' + Str(Nh_Period,2,0) As YearPeriod,Nh_NType, Nh_NSubt, Nh_Nacnt, Nh_NCntr, ; Nh_Job, Nh_Project, Sum(Nh_PtdDr) As Nh_PtdDr, -1 * Sum(Nh_PtdCr) As Nh_PtdCr, Sum(Nh_Bal) As Nh_Bal,Sum(NH_BUDG) As Nh_Budg, ; 999999999999.99 As Variance, 999999999999.99 As YTDBal, 999999999999.99 As YTDBudg, 999999999999.99 As YTDVar ;
From NHist Where NH_YEAR >= 2019 And NH_YEAR <= 2019 And NH_PERIOD >= 1 And NH_PERIOD <= 3 And NH_YEAR = 2019 ;
And NH_NACNT = 'A110 ' And NH_PERIOD = 1 And Nh_RecType = 1 ; Group By Key Union Select Str(Nh_Year,4,0) + Str(Nh_Period,2,0)+ Transform(NH_YEAR) + Transform(NH_NACNT) + Transform(NH_PERIOD) As Key, ; Nh_Year, Nh_Period,Str(Nh_Year,4,0) + '/' + Str(Nh_Period,2,0) As YearPeriod,; Nh_NType, Nh_NSubt, Nh_Nacnt, Nh_NCntr, Nh_Job, Nh_Project, Sum(Nh_PtdDr) As Nh_PtdDr, -1 * Sum(Nh_PtdCr) As Nh_PtdCr, ; Sum(Nh_Bal) As Nh_Bal,Sum(NH_BUDG) As Nh_Budg, 999999999999.99 As Variance, 999999999999.99 As YTDBal, ; 999999999999.99 As YTDBudg, 999999999999.99 As YTDVar From NHist Where NH_YEAR >= 2019 And NH_YEAR <= 2019 ; And NH_PERIOD >= 1 And NH_PERIOD <= 3 And NH_NACNT = 'A110 ' And Empty(NH_JOB) And Empty(NH_PROJECT) ; And Empty(NH_NCNTR) And Inlist(Nh_RecType,2,3) Group By Key InTo Cursor _5F50SKUYV
Now I know this is a fairly complex query but it does not contain any columns whose length is not fixed. I wonder if anybody has come across this error before. I have had to resort to completely rewriting the code that generates the SQL statement.
Many thanks
Paul Newton