Comments on: UNION oddity (or maybe it’s just me) http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/03/20/union-oddity-or-maybe-its-just-me/ Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, SQL, Visual FoxPro. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Tod McKenna http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/03/20/union-oddity-or-maybe-its-just-me/#comment-11 Tod McKenna Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:09:07 +0000 http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/03/20/union-oddity-or-maybe-its-just-me/#comment-11 What's funny is that I stumbled upon this a long time ago (maybe 6 or 7 years in VFP6 I think) by accident. I managed to overwrite a cursor by issuing it the same name as what I had in the from clause. It was a typo, and took me several hours to figure out how my cursor was getting 'garbage data'. <br/><br/>This lesson uncovered a cool little 'feature' that I've used ever since! What’s funny is that I stumbled upon this a long time ago (maybe 6 or 7 years in VFP6 I think) by accident. I managed to overwrite a cursor by issuing it the same name as what I had in the from clause. It was a typo, and took me several hours to figure out how my cursor was getting ‘garbage data’.

This lesson uncovered a cool little ‘feature’ that I’ve used ever since!

]]> By: Jamie http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/03/20/union-oddity-or-maybe-its-just-me/#comment-10 Jamie Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:04:55 +0000 http://blog.todmeansfox.com/2007/03/20/union-oddity-or-maybe-its-just-me/#comment-10 Hah! I never knew that you could select from an alias back into the same alias.<br/><br/>Bugger! Would have saved me a few extra selects from time to time! Hah! I never knew that you could select from an alias back into the same alias.

Bugger! Would have saved me a few extra selects from time to time!

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