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 Posted - 2002-11-06 : 07:35:50
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| Alan writes "I have a SQL statement, that I call from VB:SELECT A, B, CFROM TableAWHERE ...UNIONSELECT X as A, Y as B, Z as CFROM TableBWHERE ...ORDER BY ATHIS WORKS FINE but I've now switched to using ADO and the MaxRecords doesn't work anymore, so I'd like to use SELECT TOPHowever, if I change the two SELECT statements above to egSELECT TOP 8 ......UNIONSELECT TOP 8 ......I get more than 8 records backIf this was a stored procedure I could use SET ROWCOUNT 8 instead of SELECT TOP 8 but I call this straight from VB to populate a recordset.Please give me some advice.Many thanksAlan" |
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Posted - 2002-11-06 : 07:38:22
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| Make you unioned queries a derived table and then select top 8 from that ...Jay White{0} |
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SELECT TOP with UNION