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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

But how will you deal with external data sources, their record count are not usually visible in the dictionary tables...?

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

I got some more questions/thoughts.

First, does changing this property DBPROP_MAXROWS affext anything other than the SAS exist function? And to me it sounds like I would set this to 1, if it just used for checking table existence.

But, changing this is quite technical - is it optimal to put this responsibility to the customer? One could ask for is a clear recommendation in usage not or similar.

Mapping SAS functions to external calls should be the responsibility of SAS/ACCESS, and is OpenRowset () the most optimal? I'm definitely not an OLEDB programmer, but ought to be better ways - no? A quick browse on the internet suggests dbTbl.Rows.Count, but again, I'm no OLEDB programmer...:smileysilly:

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