You can display the structure of a view without opening the View Designer. . This option is useful when you want to look at the structure of a remote view without waiting to download data.
To display a view without data
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Open the view with the USE command and the NODATA keyword.
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Use the DISPLAY STRUCTURE command to display the structure information for the view in the main Visual FoxPro window.
For more information, see USE Command.
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Using the NODATA keyword is the fastest way to retrieve the structure for a view because it creates the smallest cursor possible on the remote data source. |
For example, the following code opens a database named MyDatabase. The USE command opens a previously created remote view called Customer_Remote_View with the NODATA keyword in the work area 0. The DISPLAY STRUCTURE command writes the structure information to a file called ViewStructure without sending it to the main Visual FoxPro window.
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OPEN DATABASE MyDatabase USE Customer_Remote_View NODATA IN 0 DISPLAY STRUCTURE TO FILE ViewStructure.txt NOCONSOLE |