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Why these two commands will give different results
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04/12/2006 09:40:34
 
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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:
01174590
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>
>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
>
>

Aside from the string matching, there are two potential issues here:

1) WHERE looks at the entire table; WHILE starts at the current record and stops as soon as there's a mismatch.

2) SELECT SUM() ignores Nulls. SUM does not.

Tamar
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