Michael Madigan wrote:
> The worst Foxpro programming I've ever seen was when
> the nitwit had a relation set to recno()
>   
This does have uses and the best example I can think of is when one of 
our trainers was updating some data in a table using foxpro 2.6 (She 
wasn't a programmer - enough said).   She ended up replacing all the 8 
character primary keys with blanks using the replace wizard.  This was 
done in the afternoon so the backup for this table from the previous day 
would be no good as the system had been updated.  This command was 
perfect for this situation as fortunately there were no new records in 
the table.  After restoring the previous days backup to another folder:

use yesterday\a_sname alias old      && yesterdays table
select 0
use a_sname alias sname
set relation to recn() into old
replace all sn_account with old.sn_account

Hey presto you have all your PK's back.  Anyone think of a better way of 
doing that?

Peter



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