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Art Matheny (matheny@usf.edu)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:34:15 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:34:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Art Matheny <matheny@usf.edu>
Subject: Re: what does this mean?
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971124201842.19698D-100000@curiac>

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Adam Neat wrote:

> Hello
>
> can someone tell me what this is all about? Ive seen this error in the
> archives and all of a sudden when doing a insert into blah command via
> a CGI file, this appeared:
>
> Welcome to the miniSQL monitor. Type \h for help. mSQL > ERROR : Error
> reading table "CUSTOMERS" definition (No such file or directory) mSQL

I think the wording of that error message is more alarming than it needs
to be because it probably just means that this table does not exist in the
database that you are connected to. Only if one is sure that the table
really does exist in the database that one is sure he has really connect
to, would one suspect deeper problems. 

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