Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
>>Sergey.
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>>>I don't see a problem in using either of them. I would stay away from TTOS() UDF or any other in the index keys because cure would be worse than decease.
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>>LOL. That's cute. No offense intended. You may have intended to use "decease" which made me laugh. This "cure" is not worse than dying. :)
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>>I think you meant to write "disease".
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>>However TTOS is not worse than the disease. It is completely valid to extend the language with new functions especially when certain functions can legitimately be considered missing.
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>>I'd only add that since it is a UDF it perhaps should have a different prefix just in case VFP does include a TTOS function in a new version. One could then replace all MYTTOS with TTOS.
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>Hi Mike,
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>Thanks for catching my typo. The matter certanly is not worth dying for. <g>
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>To clarify, I'm for extending language with UDFs but I don't think they should be used in indexes.
I suppose I'd generally agree as I have rarely used such an index.
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