>>Hi!
>>
>>The variable past "?" is called "parameter" for SQL command(s). When executing, all "?{variable}" are automatically replaced by real values and sent to SQL server. More, these values are replaced in a such way that you can pass really large data (megabytes) using this approach, that is limited when passing data directly as a constant. This way is very useful for saving General and large Memo field data.
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>If I want to insert a general field (in SPT) to an image field in SQL Serve, I can issue:
>>>
>>>SQLEXEC(lnConnect, [Insert into mytable (ImageField) values (?MyCursor.GeneralField)])
>>>
>>>Question - what is the "?" doing exactly here? Is there a function equivelant of it if I wanted to concatenate the SQL String myself?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>
>The problem is that using the "?" covnerts an SPT Insert statment into an sp_executesql which is in it's own SQL scope. This prevents me from being able to sue scope_identity() to get the identity back from SQL Server.


You could get the identity from 'inserted' cursor.
Cetin