>Good morning,
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>Using SPT from VFP 9 I need to retrieve a bunch of records from a table in SQL Server. The know information is a key field values for each of the records. So I am thinking of building an expressing that will use INLIST() as following:
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>cSqlCommand = "select * from mytable where
>inlist( keyfldname, 'val1', 'val2', 'val3 )"
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>I have 2 questions:
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>1. VFP help says that the number of INLIST expressions can be up to 25. Is this the same in SQL Server?
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>2. In VFP INLIST() is Rushmore optimized. Is this the same in SQL Server (if index on KEYFLDNAME exist)?
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>Thank you in advance for your help.

1) Do not use inlist() bu in ().
2) Unlike VFP you can send very long lists.
3) As list size increases it gets slower (SQL server needs to consume a larger input)
4) An alternative is to create a temp table on the same connection and insert values in that table then use a join (or in (select ... )). This approach works better if you are using the same query for both VFP and SQL.
Cetin