selection set problem
Kenneth Brody
kenbrody at spamcop.net
Thu May 14 20:24:38 PDT 2009
Richard Kreiss wrote:
> One of my clients tried to run the following selection set and no records
> were selected.
>
> Field 25 (1,.0) Values 0-9
> field 14(4,.0) values 1000-4000 at present
>
> the selection set:
> 14 le 1088
> 25 le 3
>
> No records selected.
>
> I changed the selection set to:
> 14 ge 1
> 14 le 1088
> 25 ge 1
> 25 le 3
>
> This selected 17800 records.
(Was it the correct 17800 records?)
Well, if there are records where field 25 contains 0, as you state above,
these two are not equivalent. However, the first set should be a superset
of the second.
> Both selection sets seem to be looking for the same data. Why did set 1
> fail and set 2 find the records wanted?
Short of a corrupted index, I can see no reason why the above conditions
wouldn't select at least those same 17800 records for selection set 1.
--
Kenneth Brody
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