>Sort of. For the SQL server it does come as a dynamic thing; for VFP, it's pretty much prepared in advance, somewhere in the definition of the view. Looking at a dct file of a views-only dbc, I didn't see any insert or update statements, but I found arrays of fields' update fields (i.e. what's the field to update), so it is at least pre-parsed.
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>So while the SQL commands VFP is sending to the server for a view are dynamic, they are at least always the same for a given view, only the values change.
Yes, I get that part. In our framework, we implement a lot of stuff for dynamic view parameters of remote views generating SQL queries on the fly. Of course the back end just sees the query coming in from the connection class through the odbc.
I guess this means remote views are as "precompiled" and cached as SPs. Cool. That is just another reason why it the Fox and a SQL backend are a pretty potent combination.
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