Question

We are having some serious issues migrating Visual FoxPro to SQL Sever..

I don’t know much about FoxPro.. Anybody who have done this migration could please help me with my question below

How do I write an equivalent SQL statement to SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR 70 (SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR 80) found in FoxPro.. What is the purpose of SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR at all? I read some where that it is to list all fields which are neither part of aggregate functions or group by clause.

Any help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

I believe thats a compatibility statement within FOXPro…does a report script contain that statement? It shouldn’t be required if you are now running directly on a SQL server…I think it’s mostly for Foxpro formatting.

Full info from MSDN is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa978316(v=vs.71).asp

Edit to add:
Actually it does appear to affect grouping behaviour. From the link:

You can include an aggregate function in the SELECT list without having it in the GROUP BY clause.
For example, the following code uses the COUNT( ) function on the field company without having the field company in the GROUP BY clause.
SELECT COUNT(company), country FROM Customer GROUP BY country

If you are getting out of FoxPro, I don’t think this statement is required anymore.