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Re: Obtaining Age

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From: Gerald Lightsey
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <367c81a9.30671582@forums.borland.com>, 
supportInfo@borland.com says...
> Local SQL doesn't understand dBASE expressions/functions. You would
> need to create a memory variable and pass that to the SQL statement.
> 
> Since you need a 5.6 solution I can't tell you much ... the local SQL
> in 5.6 isn't all that great, and I dunno how to get it to do what you
> need.
> 
Ken,

Since the need to obtain a rowset with calculated age, from a file 
containing date of birth, would seem to be a very common requirement, I 
guess I was hoping for a stock response from someone's SQLflp file. <G>

Gerald
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Date: 1998/12/20
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