>>>>
>>>>I have a generic table, I know nothing about it then taht wahta I could read via VFP functions.
>>>>
>>>>In special:
>>>>-no order
>>>>-no index
>>>>
>>>>I need to move this into an excel spread sheet.
>>>>I do this with an array to write into Excel
>>>>Now the table is a bit large, so I get OLE Errors.
>>>>
>>>>Should not be a problem, I can write in chunks.
>>>>
>>>>But now I need to chunk the table
>>>>Like (example)
>>>>First 100 recs
>>>>Next 100 recs
>>>>....
>>>>Last recs
>>>>
>>>>Is there a way to do this with VFP SQL (note: no chance for SELECT TOP, no ORDER given ...)
>>>>Any other idea how to do this?
>>>
>>>as it is a vfp table, add a bracket to WHERE into which recno() has to be BETWEEN, and increment bracket borders in a loop
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>>
>>Was there not something to not use RECNO() / RECCOUNT() in SELECT SQL? Do you think it's thrustworthy?
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>yes on single source-table operations
>
>>
>>It's a single cursor, it should not be a filterd SELECT SQL (What would be worst).
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>If it is a single cursor, why don't you build that cursor with an explicit rownum added to the end (which will force it to be physical as well) and select n-1 fields from the cursor if you really don't trust recno() of the cursor - still easy to generalize for different table structures for automatic processing, as long as source table has not max fields.
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>function parameters inAliasOrName, OutFile,Stepsize
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>and you have no problems in the future...
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>regards
>
>thomas

How do you Select n-1 fields if you do not know the field names or number of fields (other then by AFIELDS()) ? Any SQL I miss? (And I miss a lot :D )

It's just an catch-the-current-ALIAS-and-process machine. Called from everywhere. Can not alter hundreds of sources ....

Lutz