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Re: Query - multifind - update
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:18:13 -0400
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At 09:11 AM 10/15/2004, Kim Borgman wrote:
>Did a query multifind search last nite, and wanted to update one of the
>fields.
>
>The query update told me "record has not yet been found".  When I had
>obviously found 200+.
>
>Yes I did a join first, and I could report on the field/records.

UPDATE does not work with compound data sets. You will have to retrieve the
entrys you want to update with FIND. You can't use MULTIFIND to do this.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/

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