( catching up on old messages )
I'm confused - is EMPTY() a legitimate function in a remote view or is this not what he's doing ? I can't find EMPTY() in any SQL Server documentation and I am testing for empty character strings with field = '' where local views used EMTPY(field) - is there a better way ?
>How do you know that lcValue is an empty string? Maybe it only looks like an empty string but has some non-printable character in it.
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>>After installing SQL Server 2005, my VFP projects started to give some errors, on my lines with EMPTY() function.
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>>It seems that EMPTY() doesn't return .t. if the variable is "".
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>>Example:
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>>IF EMPTY(lcValue)
>> * It's entering here if lcValue = .f. but not if lcValue = ""
>>ENDIF
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>>Any idea? Could it be any property of remote views or cursors...?
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>>Best regards,
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>>Ricardo Almeida
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