Recordset.count returns -1 value

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Dear Friends,

In a interview, they have asked me a question.
If Recordset.count returns -1 value then what it means.
I dont know the answer for this. Kindly any one provide me a solution.

Posted 11-Oct-12 5:03am

Arunprasath Natarajan

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[no name] 11-Oct-12 11:09am

There is no "solution". -1 generally means no rows were affected.

[no name] 11-Oct-12 11:15am

If you are talking about a DAO Recordset, then a -1 means that you have not moved the pointer so it does not know how many records are contained yet. AFAIK, been a long time since I saw one.

Maciej Los 11-Oct-12 13:24pm

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2012-10-11T07:29:00

Recordset.RecordCount property (ADO)
The RecordCount property will return -1 for a forward-only cursor; the actual count for a static or keyset cursor; and either -1 or the actual count for a dynamic cursor, depending on the data source.

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