Dear reader,

When using Database Desktop (as supplied with my Delphi3 standard), I can
read in it's online helpfile that the SQL function 'Create view' would be
supported. However, when executing a statement as:

    Create view <viewname> as Select <field> from ':<alias>:<dbname>';

the program responds with an errormessage "Capability not supported"?

Alternatively, when I omit the section: "Create view <viewname> as" from the
above statement, then I am getting a perfectly correct response in an
answer.db window...

I was wondering if I'm perhaps doing something wrong? Should Database
Desktop be able to handle "Create view..." assignments?

I'm looking forward to your helpful replies! ;-)

Best regards,
Harry D.
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Bill

Local SQL does not support CREATE VIEW. The DBD help still refers to
Paradox here.
You do have an option similar to views though. You can save a SQL
statement to a text file with a .SQL extension and reference this file
instead of a table in another SQL statement.

  SELECT Cust, ID
  FROM "saved.sql"

executes the saved SQL statement to produce a temporary result set used
in the above SQL statement.
P.S. The same is possible with QBE queries.
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Andreas
Delphi 5.01 Pro, NT4.0 Sp5
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