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----- Original Message ----- P
From: "John R" <jrdrp@xxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:40 PM
Subject: [TJ] Database maintenance & data plugins


> Tomasz,
>
> When using external data sources via data plugins e.g. Metastock I think
AB
> needs an option in the data plugins configuration settings to force
> synchronisation with external database on initialisation.
>
> As I am sure you are aware database maintenance can be a real chore.
Stocks
> quite often get added, deleted, renamed (symbol and/or descriptive name)
and
> even changed sector/industry. Similarly the constituent symbols of indices
> change regularly. If like me you maintain all above via external databases
> (Metatsock and AIQ in my case) you simply want AB to read the external
files
> in their current state i.e. disregard whatever may have been read from
> external source previously.
>
> Regards
> John
>
>