Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!lll-tis!daitc!jkrueger From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: resume field statement in INGRES prob Keywords: INGRES RTFM Message-ID: <188@daitc.daitc.mil> Date: 27 Sep 88 14:12:05 GMT References: <1042@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil.UUCP (Jonathan Krueger) Organization: Defense Applied Information Technology Center, Alexandria VA Lines: 28 In article <1042@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> bi38@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Macbeth Ylr) writes: >...I want to use the value in >the first column of a table field (lastname) to fill in the >second column (if there is only one person with that lastname) >and resume on the next row of the table field. >...Am I missing something or is Ingres >just lacking this seemingly simple and basic feature?? The former. As per sections 5.7.2, 5.8.1 in the EQUEL/C manual: ++row; ## scroll formname names to row ## resume column names lastname If the user is entering data, it's even simpler: ## resume column names lastname The ordinarywill advance to the next row. If the user never enters data in the second column, it's even simpler yet: set the column to display only with vifred. Then the cursor will skip the column automatically. -- Jon -- Jonathan Krueger uunet!daitc!jkrueger jkrueger@daitc.arpa (703) 998-4777 Inspected by: No. 15