Re: jumping to records

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2000/06/19
Message-ID: <394DFDD2.5ACF_at_yahoo.com>#1/1


A D Hager wrote:
>
> Is it possible to select all records from a table but to jump to a
> particular one?
> for example suppose I want to retrieve all records from a table but I
> want to start somewhere in the middle.
> If I execute
> select * from employees where name='aaron'
> I will only get one record.
> If I execute
> select * from employees;
> I will only get all the records and will have to retrieve many records
> before finding the one I am looking for.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Aaron

Presuming Forms, you can

execute_query(all_records)
go_record(n)

HTH

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Received on Mon Jun 19 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST

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