Bill,
> BTW, one of the mysteries of VFP is that when you SELECT TOP 3, you > can get a bunch more records in the result set than 3, if they have > matching values in the ORDER BY field. I think that's wrong.
I believe VFP 9 gives you the flexibility of choosing the top N records by either
- all records matching top N values (current way) - only the top N records in your result set (new way)
Any VFP 9 beta testers care to comment?
Malcolm
PS: Sorry - no idea how to do this under Oracle.
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