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From
24/08/1999 14:02:21
 
 
To
24/08/1999 13:43:44
Richard Hackett
Dr Dick's Software Inc
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00257214
Message ID:
00257227
Views:
15
Hi Richard,

>As far as I can tell SQL-SELECT doesn't support ORDER BY ASC for TOP 'n' queries, just DESC. Is there any way to simulate BOTTOM 'n' in a VFP SQL-SELECT line such as:
SELECT TOP 'n' field1 FROM mytable WHERE field1 < lnmyvariable ORDER BY field1 DESC
This may seem like a long shot but maybe there is there a cunning function known only to UT subscribers which inverts character, date or numeric values...worth asking anyhow.

If its a numeric, you could experiment with multiplying everything by -1, then the order will be reversed.
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