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Ooops, some cells of my memory were still at version 2.0 : 2.1 is 3000, indeed.
Thanks Bob.
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At 23:12 4/05/99 -0700, Bob Jagow wrote:
>The max # of days storable in QP is now 3000, Alain.
>A scan showed that 40 have the current max [2360 days] and that
>there is a large peak near 1850 days [7.6 years].
>Minimum days     	# of symbols
>2360				  40
>1800			    	3317
>1700				3476
>1600				3606
>1500  			3782
>
>Bob
>
>bjagow@xxxxxxx <mailto:bjagow@xxxxxxx>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alain Jossart
>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 1:44 AM
>To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Database maintenance
>
>
>
>(1) If max 2200 days of historical data is convenient, maybe have a look at
>Quote Plus data service.
>
>(2) Otherwise, Equis MSFL and some programming skills (VB/VC/Delphi) is the
>path to freedom :)
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>At 09:31 3/05/99 -0400, Robert Duplain wrote:
>>I'm looking for a simple and rapid way to clean my Metastock database.
>>I have some 16000 stocks in the database in 90 directories.  Many of the
>>stocks are now inactives or dead and the quotes are not anymore updated.
>>I want to delete from my database all those inactive stocks and regroup the
>>remaining stocks in less directories.
>>Using Downloader for this task is quite hurdle as we cannot sort the stocks
>>by dates and then use the delete function to delete obsolete stocks in a
>>block.  So we have to delete one at the time.  It would take weeks.
>>
>>Do anybody know a better way to do the job ?
>>
>>I heard about an Equiis database maintenance program.  Did anybody used it
>>? Would it easily do the job?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Robert
>>
>>
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