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Rob Fitzpatrick
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> One of our developers asked what happens if someone uses notepad or notepad++ or some other text editing tool to edit data in the database extents directly. What happens, in all likelihood, is that they corrupt the database beyond repair, in ways that you may or may not notice until it's too late. I'd be wondering about the motivations of the developer, or whoever else might be thinking along these lines. > I'm talking about simple edits where that a novice user would attempt and not a tech savvy user/progress database engineer. If you want to do simple edits to data, write a simple ABL procedure and run it. "Novice users" who think otherwise should be re-educated or have their system access removed.
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