Products:
BCB 4 professional
MySQL latest
MyODBC latest

Here's the code I'm using

bool AnAuthor::CheckIfExists(int p_ID) {
         TQuery *CheckAuthor = new TQuery(NULL);
         AnsiString strQuery;
         bool retVal;
         strQuery = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS AUTHORCOUNT FROM AUTHORS WHERE 
AUTHOR_ID=" + AnsiString(p_ID);

         CheckAuthor->DatabaseName = "bookcollection";
         CheckAuthor->SQL->Add(strQuery);
         CheckAuthor->Open();
         if (CheckAuthor->FieldByName("AUTHORCOUNT")->AsInteger >= 1) {
                 retVal = true;
         } else {
                 retVal = false;
         }
         delete CheckAuthor;
         return retVal;
}


This way, it retrieves the recordcount exactly, but if I use

CheckAuthor->RecordCount
instead of:
CheckAuthor->FieldByName("AUTHORCOUNT").AsInteger
I get a nonsense answer.


John Meyer
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Programmer


If we didn't have Microsoft, we'd have to blame ourselves for all of our 
programs crashing


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