Thank you, Sergey. I didn't know of this clause. I will have to read the help of what it does. Hopefully the NOFILTER does not slower execution of the SQL command.
>Add NOFILTER clause to prevent creation of a filtered cursor.
>select * from mytable where mytable.myfld='ABC' into cursor MYCURS NOFILTER
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>>I select a bunch of records into a cursor, as following:
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>>select * from mytable where mytable.myfld='ABC' into cursor MYCURS
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>>The message shows that, say 176 records selected. Yet when I do:
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>>? reccount("MYCURS")
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>>it returns total number of records in MYTABLE.
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>>What am I missing?
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>>Thank you.
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