>I just purchased Web connection and in working with the documentation, Rick uses a select statement for building a Cursor. Even when building a one record cursor.
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>My question is why. What benefits will I get from a select statment that I couldn't get from seek, scatter, gather.
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>Any and All opinions are welcome, even if your NOT an MVP <s>
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>Thanks
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>Alan

Hi Alan,

Let me ask you why would you want to write a program if you can achive the same result with one command - select statement?
IMO a select statement is much more readable/maitainable than procedural code and in most cases even more efficient.
Secondly, you can use select stament with any backend (VFP, MS SQL Server, Oracle, e.t.c.). I cannot say the same about procedural code.