Re: Relational Database Searching

"DrLargePants" <sean.connolly_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message <news:758bb9a6.0204260743.4387e42e_at_posting.google.com>...

> > I assume by "recordset" you mean an ADO or DAO recordset.
> Yeah sorry, I should have clarified that.
>
> >
> > For such a nonspecific requirement, perhaps you should provide a graphical
> > query-builder tool. That would let a user "basically search the database for
> > any information, in any of the tables with any conditions".
>
> In this case the user is actually a webpage, or a vb frontend etc etc,
> so unfortunatly a graphical qbe would be no good. The spec is in
> effect we need a function that can take x many parameters and
> operators and then return a recordset built on that query.

Could you use something like this?

 URL:news://news.devx.com/3ca4d683_at_10.1.10.29

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