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On 15/03/2006, at 11:14 AM, Simon Coulter wrote:
There are some rules you must follow when modifying a procedure if you want to avoid forcing a recompile of all consumers: 1) Never change the return value 2) Always make new parameters optional 3) Always know the length of character variables: a) Use VARSIZE and CEEDOD, b) or allow the caller to provide lengths, c) or never change the size of existing parameters 4) Never change the size or precision of numeric variables
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