>Hi,
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>I am testing how I could implement CA as a public object (or referenced by application object) such that it can be used over and over for different SQL commands. For example, when creating reports I need to send to DB a SQL Select and get back the cursor for the report. So my idea is to use the same CA object for all reports.
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>Here is what I tried:
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>1. Created CA (DataSourceType'ADO'), set all the necessary ADODB properties. Then I call CursorFill() and get the cursor for the report.
>2. Then I close the cursor (use in ("mycursorname"))
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>To get cursor for another report I do the following
>1. Set new value of alias for the existing CursorAdapter
>2. Set new value of SelectCmd for the existing CursorAdapter
>3. Call CursorFill().
>I get another cursor with no problem.
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>My question is, do you see any potential problems with this approach?
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>TIA.

I don't know if this is really bad approach, but I know that we created a separate CA for each form (or each particular operation). The only exception was CASearch where I set SelectCMD on the fly (still same form).

The rest of my CAs always were pre-defined and with fixed commands.