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Why these two commands will give different results
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04/12/2006 09:18:54
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01174441
Message ID:
01174582
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7
>>>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.

Check COUNT(*) vs COUNT, are they equals.
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