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Are cursors always in memory only?
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17/08/2017 02:25:13
Walter Meester
HoogkarspelNetherlands
 
 
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14/08/2017 17:40:29
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01653296
Message ID:
01653413
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>I'm updating ExcelListener.vcx to take advantage of Greg Green's excellent class vfpxWorkbookXlsx.vcx, which creates Excel files with xlsx format.
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>To optimize speed I want to make sure cursors remain in memory only. I believe this is the default VFP behavior, but am confused by the fact that you can append from a cursor by referring to it as DBF('CursorName') and the fact that that that file actually exists on disk.
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>I'd appreciate any clarifications. No need for ram disks, right?

Watch out out as soon as SYS(1104) is issued all cursors are flushed to disk.



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>TIA,
>
>Alex
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