Re: Need help!! on searching in two databases.

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 19616
interpreted = N
texte = >I want to find all records matching an id number in the first table, the >sort all the found records _alphabetically_ based on the name related to >the id number in the second table. By doing it the way it is described in >the link above, I am not able to do so. The order is determined in the >first search.I must not understand what you're trying to do. What's wrong with telling the interior [search] to sort?>This DOES work when the search doesnt >return to many records, and its pretty fast to, but when the first search >returns about 50 records or more, the second search returns more records >than the first. And this should surely not be so. Is there a way around >this, or is this a misbehaveour of webcatalog?Probably it is accidentally finding substrings of text that *happen* to match. Try adding WORD=ww to force only Whole Word matches.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Need help!! on searching in two databases. (Per Christian Lied 1998)
  2. Re: Need help!! on searching in two databases. (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  3. Re: Need help!! on searching in two databases. (Per Christian Lied 1998)
  4. Re: Need help!! on searching in two databases. (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  5. Need help!! on searching in two databases. (Per Christian Lied 1998)
>I want to find all records matching an id number in the first table, the >sort all the found records _alphabetically_ based on the name related to >the id number in the second table. By doing it the way it is described in >the link above, I am not able to do so. The order is determined in the >first search.I must not understand what you're trying to do. What's wrong with telling the interior [search] to sort?>This DOES work when the search doesnt >return to many records, and its pretty fast to, but when the first search >returns about 50 records or more, the second search returns more records >than the first. And this should surely not be so. Is there a way around >this, or is this a misbehaveour of webcatalog?Probably it is accidentally finding substrings of text that *happen* to match. Try adding WORD=ww to force only Whole Word matches.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/ PCS Technical Support

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