AW: AW: Building cursor from record list V4MD

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 11/17/03 6:08 PM, Florian Bogeschdorfer at fb at memedia.de wrote:

>> Well, today there is no technical limit.
>> 
>> What you try to do?
>> Save list of selected records?
>> 
>> Just in RAM ?
>> 
>> What for ?
>> 
> For a mailing, you may save selections, These selections are saved as SQL
> Query string and as a list of the Ids (not RecIDs, my own Ids) so that the
> customer can choose to use the "hardwired" selection list of records or
> refresh the list. This is interesting when you spread a mailing over a
> period (sending maybe 100 letters a day).
> 
> Now each record may be valid for letter mailing or not. So I try to find all
> records FROM THE LIST that are valid for letter (or eMail...). As I see it,
> I will have to select each record one by one and check... :-)
> 
> Also it would be nice to open an empty cursor and just add the corresponding
> records (without creating new ones of course), say if the operator wants to
> merge two selections. I would just say 1. build cursor with statement 1,
> merge with cursor by statement 2. Basically with the cursor approach this
> should not be a big deal for Valentina, right.
 
> I know I can make an endless list of OR connections, but this way would be
> more elegant.

I have not see such features for other dbs,
and I cannot see I very like this idea.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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