Re: Passing Parameters to Query

need single quotes around ABC, to treat it as a literal

hth
larry

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> From: Ladutko, Bob <Bob.Ladutko@bicworld.com>
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Passing Parameters to Query
> Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 3:49 PM
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cause . . . . . :   ABC is not a column of table *N in library *N. If the
> 
>   table is *N, ABC is not a column of any table or view that can be
> 
>   referenced.
> 
> Recovery  . . . :   Do one of the following and try the request again:
> 
>     -- Ensure that the column and table names are specified correctly in
the
> 
>   statement.
> 
>     -- If this is a SELECT statement, ensure that all the required tables
> were 
>   named in the FROM clause.
> 
>     -- If the column was intended to be a correlated reference, qualify
the
> 
>   column with the correct table designator.
> 
> 
> This leads me to believe that the value I enter for ":item" represents
the
> field I want to compare FGNAME to, rather than the actual value I want to
> compare FGNAME to.
> 
> Am I understanding this correctly?  Is there a way to pass the actual
value
> with the STRQMQRY command?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Bob L.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Pete Hall [SMTP:peteh@inwave.com]
> > Sent:       Wednesday, December 23, 1998 10:15 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:    Re: Passing Parameters to Query
> > 
> > At 08:56 12/23/1998 -0500, Alan Novick wrote:
> > >This is fascinating.  But how do you specify variable names in the
> > >record selection part of your query definintion?
> > 
> > It's been quite a while. I don't have Query, but as I recall, in the
> > record
> > selection dialog in Query, you specify the comparison value with a
leading
> > colon (:MYVAR). Query then thinks you will provide a value for it with
a
> > subquery. Just provide any subquery name when prompted. It won't get
used,
> > so the name doesn't matter. The object needn't exist. The value for
:MYVAR
> > will be supplied by the STRQMQRY parameter.
> > Pete Hall
> > peteh@inwave.com
> > http://www.inwave.com/~peteh
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