Going all the way back to the release of GoldMine 4.0 Enterprise Edition, FrontRange Solutions (then GoldMine Software Corp.) instituted a policy of "Maintenance." Since then, each succeeding version of their SQL-based GoldMine product (now including GoldMine Corporate Edition and GoldMine Premiu

In our first post about the RecID field, I told you that the first 7 characters of the RecID contain the date and time of the record's creation, to the 50th of a second. What are the other 8 characters for?

Character 8 - unknown, but usually a symbol, rather than a number or letter

If you've ever done a SQL query in GoldMine, you might have noticed a column called RecID. What is the RecID?

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How many contacts are in my GoldMine database?

There are a few different ways to determine this... here's my favorite:

select count(*) from contact1