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Set/restore TAG() or ORDER()?
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
01658087
Message ID:
01658095
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>>>I have to change my code, before SCAN, so that the SCAN would go through all records. Therefore, I will need to SET ORDER TO before the SCAN.
>>>What is a better practice, saving TAG() to the memory variable and then restoring it (by SET ORDER TO TAG(cSavedTag)).
>>>Or, saving the ORDER() to the memory variable and then restoring it (by SET ORDER TO (cSavedOrder)
>>>?
>>
>>I personally use ORDER(), but if I want the record marker to stay then I use SELECT .... and scan result cursor.
>
>As I mentioned to Antonio, this is a Cursor Adapter cursor and I don't want to break something in the process of updating it.
>So saving the ORDER() and restoring it works for me. I actually tried the method of saving the TAG() and restoring and it works too. I don't know what is and didn't see the difference.

I can't remember who said that if you can't do something in VFP with at least 3 different ways you can't do it at all :-)
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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