RE: can this reject bad data? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: can this reject bad data?
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:29:32 -0400
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Now assume you have two million rows and only three invalid dates
scattered throughout the table.
How do you find those?

Any attempt to do an
ORDER BY 2 to get the invalid dates to all bubble up or down will fail in
an error:
QRY2283 - Selection error involving field *N.

Tried the 'easy' way before using something I long ago downloaded, idate.

Rob Berendt

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