Thanks Karen

I do use Count(*) in several places but not everywhere, I was trying to avoid 
setting too many Vars and keeping track of them...

Marc


From: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:40 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List 
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Win 7 problem

I'm with Tony.  I never rely on SQLCODE to give me an error condition.
I do a count(*) first.  I've heard quite a few stories of SQLCODE giving
different results based on the computer's operating system.  And if my
count(*) is based on a large table, I will always add "and limit = 1" to
the end of my Select so that it stops counting as soon as it finds one
record.

Karen



In a message dated 1/4/2012 1:41:53 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes: 

  Marc,

  My way of dealing with this kind of queries is to make use of a COUNT, like:

  Set var V_Count integer = 0

  Select count(*) into V_Count indicator V_Count_ind +
  from <tableview> +

  WHERE (cust1 = .vcust1 OR cust2 = .vcust1 OR cust3 = .vcust1 +
  OR cust4 = .vcust1) AND aptdate >.#DATE

  If V_Count = 0 then

  PAUSE 1 USING 'Needs to make an Apt' CAPTION 'No APts set'
  ENDIF



  BTW   Have you noticed the RETURN after ENDIF.

  The routine will stop at that point



  Tony




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