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>>>Why can't you use a query with ORDER BY?
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>>I can. But the query with ORDER BY on the initial cursor will be of a different name. And this will lead to making a bunch of changes in the code. So I was trying to stay with the same cursor name to avoid making other changes.
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>>I don't know if you read what Naomi said, but she thinks that the initial ORDER BY should work.
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>>I will have to run some tests.
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>>Thank you for your help.
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>The initial order by persists when you do SET ORDER TO on the cursor. Test it, it's easy <g>
It does not seem to work for me.
Here is what I did:
I created a cursor using SQL Select with WHERE 1=0 and READWRITE and ORDER BY FLD1, FLD2
Then I added (appended a bunch of records) each one with value in FLD1 in descending order. That is, e.g. "99", "88", "77".
Then I browsed the cursor and it does not put the records in the ORDER BY FLD1 but rather in the order as I added the records.
Do you see what I mean?
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