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Re: Sorting Queries

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From: Khari Villela
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:00
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TQuery's cannot be sorted in Delphi
your only options are to
1. re-run the query using different order by statements
2.  Copy the data to a client dataSet and do indexing on it (easier, but
requres C/S)

Stuart Cox wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I originally access my DB using a simple TTable but I now need to select a
> set of records. I have tried using StartRange and EndRange BUT I want all
> records whose
>
> Field1 > Something and whose
> Field2 < SomethingElse
>
> It appears Ranges cannot handle this so off I go to TQuery. I can build the
> exact SQL Query I need quite easily but I also need to sort the records on
> various fields (depending on user decisions). Now, TTable has an IndexName
> which I can change depending on how I want to sort the data BUT TQuery has
> no equivalent. Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Stuart Cox
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Date: 1999/02/23
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