Omnis Studio v10.1 Basic Web Dev

[Phil]

Hi Martin,

For the avoidance of doubt, presumably you are executing this statement 
somewhere, and then fetching the results?

Some lines like this:
Do toSession.$newstatement('PG') Returns lsStatement
Do lsStatement.$execdirect(pcSQL) Returns lnResult
Do lsStatement.$fetch(pcResults,pcResults.$linemax)

Phil.

On 17/09/2020 11:14, Martin Obongita wrote:
> Dear Rocco,
>
> I have amended the code thus:
>
> Begin statement
>
> Sta:SELECT description FROM departments
>
> Sta:WHERE description = @[pDepartmentDescription]
>
> End statement
>
> IfkTrue
>
> OK message'Duplicate department'
>
> Quit methodkFalse
>
> End If
>
> When I execute this method, the flag is set to kTrue and yet there is 
> no matching record. The same script in sql query browser returns zero 
> records.
>
> Regards,
> Martin.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, September 17, 2020, 12:20:36 PM GMT+3, Phil (OmnisList) 
> via omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Was it a typo in the email, or is there no space between select and
> name, I think that won't help.
>
> and as Rocco said, you only need the name='xx' in the where clause.
>
> regards
> Phil Potter
> Based in Chester in the UK.
>
> On 17/09/2020 07:54, Martin Obongita via omnisdev-en wrote:
> >  Dear All,
> > I have a department sql table with columns “id” and“name”
> > In the “departments” table class I have a method to checkfor 
> duplicate “name” column.
> >
> > I therefore pass a parameter of the old name and the newname to 
> check for an existing department name.
> >
> > Begin statement
> >
> > Sta:SELECTname FROM departments
> >
> > Sta:WHERE name= @[pDepartmentName] AND name <> @[pDepartmentNameOld]
> >
> > End statement
> >
> > When I execute the method, the flag is set to kTrue andyet there is 
> no matching record found.
> >
> > I have run this statement in the sql query builder in thedatabase 
> and no record is found.
> > Where am I missing something?
> > Best regards,Martin Obongita.
> >
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