Thanks - that answered my question. I was trying to combine in one parameter

thanks you!
bonnie

>In addition to what Bernard replied, about the best you do to parameterize your in list is:
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>WHERE History in (?nParm1, ?nParm2)
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>If you only need 1o match one value, set nParm1 and nParm2 to that same value.
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>>I am just jumping in to Cursoradaptors and have set up a DE class containing a few CA's. My data is in SQL server. I'm trying to set a parameter in one of my CA's for a logial (SQL bit) field. What I really want is
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>>select names from employees where history in (0,1)
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>>sometimes I just want the 0's and sometimes I just want the 1's so...
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>>select names from employees where history in ?cParameter
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>>This doesn't work when I set:
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>>cParameter='(0,1)'
>>cParameter='(0)'
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>>Also, is there anything like macro substitution in the arena?
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>>thanks
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>>bonnie