Hi, Adrian, On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:58 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 9/18/20 10:46 AM, Igor Korot wrote: > > Hi, Johnathan, > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:34 PM Jonathan Strong > > <jonathanrstrong@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jonathanrstrong@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > Are you looking to arbitrarily update the field in the fifth row, or > > can the row that needs to be updated be isolated by some add'l > > attribute? What's the use case? > > > > > > What do you mean? > > I don't have any other attributes. > > > > I want to understand how to emulate MS Access behavior, where you have a > > form > > with the arbitrary query, then you can go to any record in that form and > > update any field. > > > > Is it even possible from the "pure SQL" POV? Or Access is doing some > > VBA/DB/4GL magic? > > > > When you are updating a record in a form the framework(Access in your > case) is using some identifier from that record to UPDATE that > particular record in the database. From when I used Access, I seem to > remember it would not give you INSERT/UPDATE capability on a form unless > you had specified some unique key for the records. So you need to find > what the key(generally a PRIMARY KEY) is and use that to do the UPDATE. But now the question becomes How to find what the primary key (or UNIQUE identifier) value is for row 5 in the recordset? Thank you. > > > Thank you. > > > > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
