Re: Bad style, but any chance it would ever fail to update properly?

Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC

Posted: 2019-10-02 at 13:54:45

This app seems to make a lot of assumptions (!!!) about record

position.  I noticed this a lot 20 years ago too.  Not sure how old this

code is but I thought I saw something that said early 2000s?

On 10/2/2019 2:41 PM, Frank Cazabon wrote:

> Yes, it fails if you are at EOF in the currently selected table, if I

> recall correctly.

>

> Frank.

>

> Frank Cazabon

>

> On 02/10/2019 02:14 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:

>> We've seen this before (and I did it 2 decades ago):  REPLACE

>> MyTable.MyField with SomeOtherTable.SomeField

>>

>> The implication is that "replace the MyField value in the MyTable

>> table."  But if one doesn't use the IN clause, will there ever be any

>> chance that the update to MyTable.MyField would fail?

>>

>> tia,

>> --Mike

>>

>>

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