>>Get your Jobs and Users into local cursors and then join with them locally.
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>The Sql Server table 'Jobs' has 43,000 rows in it and I need to join them with a local cursor that has about 8 rows in it to find the 8 matching records in 'Jobs' based on a lookup field.
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>So, are you telling me I habe write one Sql Server query to pull over all 43,000 rows to a local cursor, then write a FoxPro select to join them to the other existing local cursor?
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>Yikes!!! That's ugly.
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just pull down the ones you need? Send a list of ids from your 8 records to the backend

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>>>How do write a Select where you need to join a local (pre-existing) cursor with one or more tables from the Sql Server??
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>>>In this example below from my current DBF-based app, lcCsrMtlRecords is a local cursor and I need join it to some lookup values that need to come from my Sql Server database (Jobs and Users).
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>>>Select Users.email ;
>>>	From (lcCsrMtlRecords) ;
>>>		Join Jobs On Jobs.job_num = &lcCsrMtlRecords..mat_code ;
>>>		Join Users On Jobs.quoted_by = Users.emp_num ;
>>>	Where qty_recd <> before_qty_recd ;
>>>	Order By 1 ;
>>>	Group By 1 ;
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