Remote views, as you've indicated, let you specify the target structure of the query.
When you execute direct SPT Fox attempts to get the first record matching the query, and uses the structure of that result as the (fixed column) structure of the result set. So, if you have a varying-length string (varchar) and the first result is 3 characters, VFP might create a C(3) field, which could truncate everything else. Does that describe what you are seeing?
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:54 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
What extra happens when using Remove Views over SPT?
Using the same ODBC conneciton to a Filemaker database if I do "select * from ...." I get mixed results for the text strings.
If I perform the same query via a remote view I get the same mixed result.
But if I go one step further with the Remote View and specifc properties of the fields it manages to pull complete information out of filemaker.
So what extra is Remote View managing to ask of the Filemaker ODBC driver to make it behave?
Any ideas?
Regards
Chris.
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