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Ever been bitten by this?
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01/02/2002 06:23:35
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00613869
Message ID:
00613877
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18
This "feature" has been known for quite a while. Each datasession is supposed to work as independently as a separate user, but it doesn't, I'm sorry to say. AFAIK, this unwanted "sharing" only happens with the ASC/DESC case.

It never got me into trouble, though.

Hilmar.

>Don't know if this is common knowledge but it certainly caused me some grief, if you "Use" two instances of a table with a shared index as in the example code below, both instances have the same index order
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>   Use Mytable order tag mytag
>   Use Mytable Again Alias Mytable2 order tag mytag Desc In 0
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>Both instances will now have their index in descending order
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