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>Dan,
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>Thanks for your note. (For a while I thought I was going to win the award for the "longest-posting-never-replied-to" on UT .)
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>I agree with all the things you say. Creating a presistent relationship first seems to help the view designer get it right.
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>Also, be sure to try enabling SQL ShowPlan with the "11" parameter to have vfp show you the joins being used the the SQL optimizer:
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> Type SYS(3054,11) in the command window to enable SQL ShowPlan
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>VFP will then show you the "mistake" being made by the View Designer.
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>As I think I mentioned, these "features" of the View Designer were mentioned in at least one presentation at DevCon.
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>Best regards,
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>Steve
Steve - thanks for the tip about the SQL ShowPlan. I wasn't able to get to DevCon this year. Hopefully the next. We're still waiting on our copies of the session notes.
Cheers - Dan LeClair
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