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Re: Problems with SQL in VDB 7

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From: charles richards
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 00:00
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Gerald Fay wrote in message ...
>My greatest difficulty is the inablity to get any return with using the
>LIKE compare.
>
>For example under criterion field I enter a character field by dragging
>from the database, choose like as the compare and enter a value in the
>third column. When running the query I get notified "Database Error.
>Operation not applicable".
>


I just tried this and the query returned values starting with 'A'

SELECT INST
FROM "D:\apps\local\inst.dbf" Inst
WHERE  INST LIKE 'A%'

Make sure you move to the next line in the Criteria section or you criteria
will not be saved.

>Also occasionally pressing f12 to look to activate "code view" (2 way
>tools) the SQL designer causes a GPF. Sometimes the SQL designer just
>drops all the information entered in the "criterion" even if you've
>pressed save, and exit.
>


Got it to crash once, but could not reproduce.

Charles Richards
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