another beginning SQL/Rev question

Charles Hartman charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
Sun Oct 9 15:56:30 EDT 2005


On Oct 9, 2005, at 3:24 PM, James Spencer wrote:

> I'm not sure why this isn't working but then I find proper use of  
> revExecuteSQL to be a black art but what may work better in any  
> case is to use revDatabase____ (ColumnCount, ColumnNames, etc)  
> rather than using revExecuteSQL.

But that works only (if I understand correctly) after you've used a  
"select" statement. It works on a "cursor" that's already been  
returned. I'm trying to get information about the column names &  
numbers before I do a "select" (in preparation for "select").

Charles Hartman




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