Cursor size and memory/speed

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 2/18/05 8:19 PM, "Keith DeLong" <delong at redcort.com> wrote:

>> What exactly task you have ?
> 
> Same task I've been wrestling with for some months. The tasks is to get the
> most recent entry in a table for a given worker. I've explored a lot of
> solutions. For several years I used a separate table to record the last
> entry. After lots of minor issues with this solution, I experimented using
> the max function (which is unreliable with doubles if you remember from last
> fall), and finally settled on just getting all records ordered by date/time
> (the seconds actually) and using cur.recordcount to access the record.
> 
> A situation that seemed so straight forward proved to have many issues along
> the way when one starts editing, deleting, and otherwise managing the data.

Sounds like new Vfield.Find() functions can be useful for you.

-- 
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
-------------------------------------------------------------
e-mail: ruslan at paradigmasoft.com
web: http://www.paradigmasoft.com

To subscribe to the Valentina mail list go to:
http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina
-------------------------------------------------------------