Hi Mike

I do this with Sql server but i guess it would also work with VFP data, what you need is a key an an order by clause. The client need to know about the last key he received.

The statement would look like this:

Select TOP 10 * From SomeTable Where YourKeyField > ? Order By YourKeyField

In my client i keep an array of The last key field received if the user press on "previous". When using the TOP clause, i always use order by to make sure i receive consistant data, using TOP with no order by does not always return the same rows even if the data haven't changed.


>Hey All,
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>How do you do paging with Fox Data? Paging, or block cursors, or whatever you want to call them is getting record 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, ect. like a web search engine would list its results.
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>I tried something like:
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SELECT TOP 10 field FROM cursor ORDER BY 1 ;
>     WHERE field NOT IN (SELECT TOP 30 field FROM cursor ORDER BY 1)

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>So that would get top 10 results that aren't in the top 30 results, resulting in records 31-40... but I don't think VFP likes that. I'm trying to get it to one SQL Select statement, cause I'm using the OLE-DB Providor to get at the data. I know, I coudl use Stored Procedures, but currently the tables are free, and it would be nice to not change that.
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>I figured that the next best thing woudl be to get the TOP 10*page and just ignore what I don't need. So in order to display the first 10 records of a 30,000 record table, I would do a TOP 10. To get 11-20 I would just do a TOP 20 and ignore the first 10 on the client side. That would probably cut down on the data coming down the pike.