How to Determine the Database to Which a Table Belongs (134880)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
This article was previously published under Q134880

SUMMARY

There are cases where a developer needs to be able to determine programmatically which database contains the table that is open. The CURSORGETPROP() function, with 'DATABASE' (including the quotation marks) as the first parameter, returns this information.

MORE INFORMATION

The CURSORGETPROP() function returns the settings of various properties of a Visual FoxPro table or cursor. For example, to determine the database to which a table belongs, you can use this code: 
   USE customer
   WAIT WINDOW "The table in the current workarea is contained by " + ;
      CURSORGETPROP('DATABASE') + ' database'
Following is a list of all the properties for which CURSORGETPROP() returns settings: 
BatchUpdateCount
Buffering
ConnectHandle
ConnectName
Database
FetchMemo
FetchSize
KeyFieldList
MaxRecords
SendUpdates
SourceName
SourceType
SQL
Tables
UpdatableFieldList
UpdateNameList
UpdateType
UseMemoSize
WhereType
For more information on using CURSORGETPROP(), please see the Visual FoxPro Help file.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:2/15/2000
Keywords:KB134880
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