>Charles, I tend to doubt this will help - so consider this a "Hail Mary" attempt....but it's the only thing I can think of.
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>In SQL Server, this doesn't work...
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>declare @RowsToGet int
>set @RowsToGet = 10
>select top @RowsToGet * from SomeTable
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>However, this does (requires parenthesis around the parameter variable for SQL to evaluate it)
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>declare @RowsToGet int
>set @RowsToGet = 10
>select top (@RowsToGet) * from SomeTable
I've been trying to get this to work with ODBC and SPT but if i read the VFP docs correctly a param can't be part of a SELECT statement. Anyway. so far no luck but I'm not sure it is critical to the app and seems like kind of a half assed approach to do in on the back end when it is a VFP app and the potential result set is really small anyway.
Charles Hankey
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