For some reason I do not seem to be able to log into the Gambas Wiki. That is probably a good thing considering my level of ignorance (which has proven to be immense). Thus I pass these observations along for consideration:
I have dealt with various SQL Data Bases for some two decades (primarily Oracle but also MS SQL, Access, etc.). When I started looking at some of the Gambas functions I found a syntax pattern that I was unfamiliar with. Ref: http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.db/_connection/find Function *Find* ( _Table_ As String *[* , _Request_ As String, _Arguments_ As , ... *]* ) As Result <http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.db/result> * _Table_ * _Request_ * _Arguments_ I assume that this form comes from a language that I am unfamiliar with (or perhaps an implementation of stored procedures) and thus goggled: SQL Request Arguments I found a few references to MS Excel but no suitable explanation. I finally found the answer in the "obsolete" Gambas Wiki that is still online: Ref: http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.db/connection/subst?v3 Creates a SQL sentence by substituting its arguments into a format string. * _Format_is the SQL sentence. * _Arguments_are the arguments to substitute. The&1,&2... patterns inside the_Format_string are replaced by the SQL representation of the 1st, 2nd..._Arguments_. These arguments are quoted according to the underlying database SQL syntax. I also note from an example in the "obsolete" Gambas Wiki that an explanation mark "!" is used to delimit field names in a result. http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.db/connection/edit?v3 I do not find any similar example in the current Gambas Wiki but perhaps I missed it. Regards, Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
