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In RM8, citations are re-useable and have a name which is made by concatenating the contents of the citation fields.
So I run this script on my RM version 7 database so that it is ready for importing into RM ...
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RootsMagic 8 introduced indirection between citation data (text fields) and the fact to which a citation is attached, In RM7, the citation data and linkage was combined in the CitationTable. To use the same citation data for more than one ...
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Please excuse the recent behaviour of this WordPress site. You have likely heard nothing by email from it since March 2 until yesterday and then some of you may have received flurries of duplicate messages. New subscribers probably received no ...
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Database Diagram for RootsMagic version 8 - there are probably more table relationships to be added. Database Diagram as pdf file to download ...
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Many tables within RootsMagic have fields which are know to mean something but do not have lookup tables. So far I have collected the following: (more to follow) Fields named OwnerType - see Understanding the RootsMagic 8 database – Ownership ...
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The RootsMagic 8 database structure has seen a few changes from RM7 and one of these is that more objects can "own" other objects in the data. A task can have media, citations and web tags for example. To achieve ...
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In RootsMagic 7 group names are stored in the LabelTable and the group members in GroupTable with group id and RIN. The LabelTypes in the LabelTable are 0 – groups, and thus it is the label value field that links ...
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Common Table Expressions (CTE) are a feature that was first introduced to SQL in about 2005 and provide a method of defining a temporary result set then using that in the query as if it were another table. Yes, subqueries ...
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Thanks to member momakid, we have a new spreadsheet of data definitions available on Google Sheets. The new fields in RM8 are not completely described so your input is welcome. You may comment directly on the spreadsheet, on this page ...
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Comparing the CREATE statements for a database file of each version reveals changes to persisting tables in addition to tables deleted and added per First Look at RM8 #Database. This post provides DDL files from RM7.6.5 and the RM8 Preview ...
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