On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:21 -0500, Geoffrey Mitchell wrote: > This doesn't work (at least on UV). The sample happens before the sort, > not after. > > Otherwise, however, it's an ingenious idea. Incidentally, you could do > the same thing (at least in UV) without creating a new dictionary, by > using EVAL. > > i.e., > SELECT MYFILE BY EVAL "RND(@TIME)" > > That way you don't need an extra bogus dictionary in every file you want > to do this on.
This sounded good, but OpenQM complains "Sort item cannot be a literal value". I get the same error when trying to use it in an I descriptor. -- Dave Walker ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
