Adding Records at Start

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/7/04 9:31 AM, Mark Maslowski at mark at majico.com wrote:

> I have a Valentina database that I have been using with Director MX. Up
> until this evening, when I add a record via Lingo, it correctly places the
> new record at the end of the database. Tonight, for no real reason I can
> discern, it has begun to insert the new record at the BEGINNING of the
> database. Since I am building dynamic menus from that database, it is
> causing a problem in the menu order.
> 
> Any idea why this might be happening all of a sudden and how I can get it to
> stop???

Hi Mark,

1) I think this happens because you have DELETE some records.

2) Valentina REUSE place of deleted records.

3) Mark, you cannot depend on order of records!
    this is bad idea.

You can e.g. Add special field INDEX,
And do SORTING on index to get predicted order.


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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