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From: dawood alisha <sunpk139@sunpk139.ebay>
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Subject: Re: Question about SQLforms3
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 13:47:31 -0700
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Julien wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm writing a form with SQL forms3. I would like to
> be able to enter a query on a field that is not
> based on a table.
> How can I do it ?
> Please reply by mail.
> Thanks in advance...
To bring this functionality to your form, you may need to write the
triggers pre-query,post-query etc. Since the field is not based on a
base table oracle can't perform query on that field, but you can program
it using select statement and above triggers.

Dhanaji More