Trying to return results from a query run on the database
Fred Giannetto
fgiannet at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 3 14:56:46 EST 2005
Thank you Trevor,
The function executes but only returns the Database ID connection instead of
the results of the query. Anyone know why it would be doing this?
All best Always
Fred
>From: Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com>
>Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>Subject: Re: Trying to return results from a query run on the database
>Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:10:48 -0800
>
>On Nov 1, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Fred Giannetto wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am trying to create a list of data entered into the database.
>>
>>I have recently tried
>>
>>get revDataFromQuery(tDatabaseEnroll,"SELECT lname, fname, ID from
>>usrev.results")
>> --revQueryDatabase(tDatabaseEnroll,select "lname", "fname", "ID" from
>>usrev.results")
>> --revQueryDatabase(tDatabaseEnroll,"select `lname`, `fname`, `ID` from
>>usrev.results")
>> answer it
>
>Hi Fred,
>
>First statement: Your parameters are wrong. The parameters for
>revDataFromQuery are:
>
>revDataFromQuery([columnDelim],[rowDelim],databaseID,SQLQuery [,varsList])
>
>Second statement: Two things - revQueryDatabase is a function and quotes
>are wrong. You need to wrap your entire string in double quotes. If you
>want to embed double quotes in the string you can use the format function
>or something like:
>
>get "SELECT "& quote& "fname"& quote&", "& quote& "ID"& ...
>
>Third Statment: revQueryDatabase is a function. The examples in the docs
>are incorrect. Call it like this (the transcript should all be on one
>line):
>
>put revQueryDatabase(tDatabaseEnroll,"select `lname`, `fname`, `ID` from
>usrev.results") into tRecordSetID
>
>
>--
>Trevor DeVore
>Blue Mango Multimedia
>trevor at mangomultimedia.com
>
>
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