[thelist] Re: Bad DB Data?

[The BadLANs]

Thanks for the clarification, rudy.  Of course, you were right.  Turns out I
wasn't indexing properly.  I couldn't tell you why the script would timeout
when going through a certain block of records, but with the recordset
sorted, there are no more timeouts.  I had orginally thought bad data was
the continuing culprit because quotes and semi-quotes in the field names
were the first thing causing it to break.  Thanks again!

adam

i'm sorry, perhaps one has to be biased, like me, but the problem you
describe is likely how your code is handling the data, rather than the data
itself
infinite loops fall in this category, although i am not suggesting that's
what's causing your problem
if the problem is repeatable on a certain few records, you will no doubt
soon find them
these records may indeed have what we would call bad data, even after you
have cleansed them of "backslashes, forwardslashes, quotes, and semiquotes"
when you find the culprit records, i'll have a look at your select and
update queries if you like, although i won't be able to help with your asp
code