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Why these two commands will give different results
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01174441
Message ID:
01174572
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>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have a loop, where some updates are done on Comision table in non-buffered mode.
>>
>>I recently changed my code to select sum(...) and I found a difference in my results. So, I switched back to sum ... Why would the results of these two commands differ?
>>
>>
>>SELECT SUM(rate*SHARE/10000) AS crate WHERE inv_no+salesman = m.ccinv + m.Slsman ;
>>	                FROM comision INTO ARRAY laArr
>>
>>SUM (rate*SHARE/10000) TO cRate WHILE inv_no+salesman = m.ccinv + m.Slsman
>>
>>
>>(I'm standing on the right record).
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Souldn't that scope be FOR? :
>
>SUM (rate*SHARE/10000) TO cRate FOR inv_no+salesman = m.ccinv + m.Slsman

No, while will work since in the preceeding line of code (not shown here) I seek for m.ccinv + m.Slsman

I haven't figured why I was getting different results, but I decided to move on.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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