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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: dBase question
Keywords: sequential seek
Message-ID: <6666@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 07:40:10 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA
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I hate to ask questions specific to dBase III+, but I need a quick 
answer.  Here's the situation:

I have a database that has two indexes, the master index which in unique
and another non-unique index on a string + date combination.  I would like
to switch to using the second index as the master (using SET ORDER) to do
a search.  To do this, I am doing this series of commands:

LOCATE FOR .t.       && Just point to the first record to initialize locate
SEEK data-to-be-found  && To do a quick move to the records that I want
...processing...
CONTINUE             && To advance to the next record as per the indexed order

Can anyone tell me if this is a good idea?  If not, how would you go about
this?

Thanks,
  Michael



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