>>Hi,
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>>If I want to exclude empty records from a query for VFP data I would use:
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>>select * from MyTable where !empty( MyField )
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>>
>>To do the same for SQL server, the query is:
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>>select * from MyTable where MyField <> ''
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>>
>>If I wanted to have one SQL expression that works for both VFP and SQL, I can do the following
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>>select * from MyTable where LEN(rtrim( MyField) ) > 0
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>>
>>Is the above efficient method or there is a better approach?
>>
>>TIA
>
>EMPTY is not optimizable in FoxPro. I usually do LOCATE FOR field = space(len(field)) or something of that nature.
Thank you.
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