>Hi Alex.
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>I wondered if there a solution to the problem than we can't do selects on buffered data other than calculating initial values and adding/subtracting changes? That sure would be useful.
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>One trick that Andy and I used to use was to start a transaction, issue a tableupdate(), run the sql select, and then rollback the transaction aftwerward.
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>It's sneaky, but it works < s >.

Oh it was a question ?
Might also do a copy fields to an array (or temp table) and sum on it.
Cetin