Chris Breemer wrote >

>
>Hi all,
>
>I've attached an image database to an allbase dbe. When I go into isql, I
can do
>"info base.table" to see the layout of the image dataset allright. But
when I do
>"select * from base.table" the response is
>
>IMAGE/SQL error 112; TurboIMAGE error -1; TurboIMAGE intrinsic 405, &
>Auxiliary error 52.  (DBERR 13552)
>Can not continue with SELECT. (DBERR 97)
>
>So, RTFM, I figured that DBGET failed with -52 'bad list or bad item'.
Seems that
>Image can't be bothered to explain which list or item is in error.
>Is there a way to get a more informative message ? Could it be security ?
I haven't
>got a schemafile of the database, nor any 3rd party tools. Attaching the
database
>reported no problems; I've tried DBUTIL and SQLUTIL but could see nothing
out of
>the ordinary.
>
>Anybody got a clue ?
>
>TIA and a good weekend to you all.
>
>        Chris Breemer
>        Compuware Europe B.V.
>


Chris your error is a -1 with MPE error 52 file not available !!!

Is there a problem with your root file or permission to access to a dataset.

A good way to cause this is to use some god like powers to move a database
(I believe that these things have fully qualified links these days).


Ken Vickers

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