We often heared in this newsgroup, how the problem "Record xyz is not
in sort order" can be solved: Going back to BDE 2.51.

But often, it is not possible to do so, because the BDE 2.51 has big
problems with some networks. Secondary indexe are also more often out
of date.

So, there is a problem: Take BDE2.52 with the ordering problem or use
2.51 with the caching problem.

BUT: It is possible, to use BDE 2.52 without these problems.
If you e.g. want to index the name and city of peoples, than you only
got problems, if there are special international characters in these
fields.
So only add a new field "OrderingField" and manually set this field to
lowercase and without international characters (use e.g. ae instead of
?) in the before-post-event. So, if you set the index on this field,
you have no problem.

This is a very easy way to overcome this problem and  it works fine.

BTW: I send Borland a small database, which includes this problem and
hope to get a real solution for this problem in the next days. (* hope
*)

  Steff
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Please let the rest of the world know if you get a reply on this issue.
Also, if you would be bothered to send info to my email address...? I
don't monitor this group constantly.

Harald Heggelund

Hello,

Can you use Borland's new version of the BDE? I'm curious if you see
the same problem in it. You can pick up a copy at Borland's web site
(http://www.borland.com/bde/).

Let me know,
Allen

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