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Temp file is too large?
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From
20/04/2005 23:01:10
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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20/04/2005 13:45:54
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01006644
Message ID:
01006820
Views:
17
>I running into a foxpro error that tells me that a temp file is too large? I'm taking a cursor(12mb) and a table(5mb) combining them through a SQL select statment into another cursor and when this happens I get the message that "C:\temp\X.tmp is too large"
>any suggestions?
>thanks

The Cartesian product mentioned by Hugo is my first suspect, too. The query probably takes a large time before giving this error.

A Cartesian product - combining all records from table A with all records from table B, instead of only matching records - happens when you forget the condition to join the tables (JOIN or the old-fashioned WHERE).
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