Index of fields

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/18/04 3:27 PM, "Ralf Sander" <ralf at end-if.de> wrote:

Hi Ralf,

> Hi Ruslan,

> yes, but but nevertheless I have a lot of records to loop through.

I do not understand about which loop you talk here ?

> What I have in mind:
> I want to create a visual representation of record creation dates and
> times. This could be a lot of values and creating this chart could take
> some time. 


> Accessing the values in the index would be much faster, I
> think.

NO. Index is complex structure. It is hidden even from C++ developers.
NO WAY.

And values are not listed in the index one by one.
They are spread in the whole index.

> The need for speed, you know ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> 
>> On 12/18/04 3:28 AM, "Ralf Sander" <ralf at end-if.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ralf,
>> 
>> Wait a moment. My last advice was to use query with DISTINCT.
>> 
>>   curs = db.SqlSelect( "SELECT DISTINCT name from T" )
>> 
>> Now you get cursor with unique vales from field. Sorted btw.
>> 
>> So no need to loop

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