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Ron R
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We have a focus database with the following layout:
FILE=RFAVORITE ,SUFFIX=FOC
SEGNAME=SEG01 ,SEGTYPE=S02
FIELDNAME =CLIENT , E01 , A10 , FIELDTYPE=I, $
FIELDNAME =TAG , E02 , A20 , FIELDTYPE=I, $
FIELDNAME =DUMMY , E03 , A1 , , $

I would like to be able to delete all rows where CLIENT equals a certain constant. e.g. where client eq 'SMITH'.

Is there a way to accomplish this using Maintain.

Thanks,
Ron Richards

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Posts: 38 | Location: Milwaukee | Registered: April 28, 2005Report This Post
Mikel
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Example:

MAINTAIN FILE RFAVORITE
  -* Read records to delete into stack.
  FOR ALL NEXT CLIENT INTO STK WHERE CLIENT EQ 'SMITH' ;
  TYPE "<STK.FOCCOUNT  rows to delete "

  -* Delete all records from stack.
  FOR ALL DELETE CLIENT FROM STK ;
  TYPE "ERROR: <FOCERROR "
END

Regards,
Mikel


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Leah
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Don't use maintain, however, do you want only SMITH or any name that has SMITH in it? If the latter then rather than EQ you could use CONTAINS if maintain works the save for selection.


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Ron R
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Thanks Mikel, this worked great.

Ron
 
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BJK
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[SOLVED] This was a key issue......I am new to Maintain. I have a oracle table with column one being the same name and the second column is different. How do i delete an entry for the second column only? When I try it with the following code It ends up deleting all entries that have the same column one.


FOR ALL NEXT FIRSTLIST.GROUPNAME1 FIRSTLIST.CUST1 INTO STK WHERE
(firstlist.FIRSTLIST.GROUPNAME1 EQ zGROUPNAME1 AND
firstlist.FIRSTLIST.CUST1 EQ zCUST1);
TYPE "

-* Delete records from stack.
DELETE FIRSTLIST.CUST1 FROM STK;

help would be appreciated thanks

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Product WF 7.1.6 Windows
Database Oracle
outputs PDF, HTML, EXCEL
 
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BJK
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MISSED THE DELETE STATEMENT
Here it is

-* Delete all records from stack.
DELETE FIRSTLIST.GROUPNAME1 FIRSTLIST.CUST1 FROM STK;


Product WF 7.1.6 Windows
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outputs PDF, HTML, EXCEL
 
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