Re: record count -1

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"Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Dmitriy Antonov" <antonovdima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Terry Kreft" <terry.kreft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Recordcount is not going to reliably return the count of records.

I don't think it is true. It may not return any count at all, like in the
case with OP, but if it, indeed, returns some value greater than -1,
then
it must be reliable (at least, I never heard about problems with
incorrect
counting and never had such problems in my experience).

Dmitriy.


You touch on an interesting bit of Data Access history. (to me anyway) In
earlier days there was such a wide variety of providers, library versions,
and a general lack of understanding of the different cursors types. There
was even a reported 'bug' in some ODBC driver that it returned an erronous
recordcount, though I am not sure it was ever really tracked down.


I wasn't working as a programmer at that time - hence my "confidence" in
this property's behavior :-)

Dmitriy.


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