Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!peer1-sjc1.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!hub1.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Relational Database Searching Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:56:31 -0700 Organization: North American Marcab-Teegeeack Love Association Message-ID: Reply-To: "Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" References: <758bb9a6.0204250242.5462238b@posting.google.com> <3cc8acbd$0$3570$1dc6e903@news.corecomm.net> <758bb9a6.0204260743.4387e42e@posting.google.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 25 Xref: easynews comp.databases.theory:20565 X-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:33:55 MST (news.easynews.com) "DrLargePants" wrote in message ... > > 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@10.1.10.29 -- Joe Foster On the cans? WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above They're coming to because my cats have apparently learned to type. take me away, ha ha!