>I have two tables that have been linked into a view. I have tried doing some SELECT * where (criteria) into cursor abc. I only want to return a total of no more than say 50 records regardless of whether the query result set contains 100 or 1000 records.
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>I have tried using the cursorsetprop( 'maxrecords', 50 ) function, which always returns .t., but it always returns the entire result set.
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>What am I doing wrong? Right now, I have resorted to doing the query to a table, then doing a second query where recno() < 50 into the final result set.
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>tia. Stephen


If you have VFP 5.0, there is an additional parameter with the SELECT statement that gives you the TOP nRecords, or TOP PERCENT of the table, nice new features.

HTH, Greg