RE: Passing Parameters to Query

[Brian.Johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Use apostrophes (') instead of quotes (") around your variable value.  A
quoted string is interpreted to be a column name.  A character literal must
be enclosed in apostrophes.

PS

This is helpful when you have a column name that is also an SQL reserved
word.  For example, if you had a column named GROUP, SQL would complain
about this:

select group from table1

thinking that the word group was starting a group-by clause.  Quoting the
column name solves the problem:

select "GROUP" from table 1






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Subject:  RE: Passing Parameters to Query




OK, I guess I belong in the slow group.

I set up a query with the following record selection:

  FGNAME            EQ     :item

where FGNAME is an alpha field in the file I'm querying.  I then
interactively ran the STRQMQRY command against the saved query definition.
I got the following prompt:

  Type a value for variable "ITEM" and press Enter.

I then entered "ABC" and pressed Enter.  I got the following error:

Message ID . . . . . . :   SQL0206       Severity . . . . . . . :   30

Message type . . . . . :   Diagnostic

Date sent  . . . . . . :   12/28/98      Time sent  . . . . . . :
15:44:07



Message . . . . :   Column ABC not in specified tables.








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