Load-lookup requires a key, but it doesn’t have to be a key field of a database table. It can be any field or a formula based on one or more fields. It ought to be unique among the rows that the load-lookup selects. I don’t think you can avoid assigning some name to key=. The idea behind lookup is that you give it one value and it returns a related value. What would you do with it if you weren’t giving it a value?

Load-lookup will not store multiple rows with the same key value, but multiple key values could have the same return value.

The rows= parameter gives load-lookup an estimate of the number of rows you expect it to read.

Am new to SQR. Is it mandatory to use key field in Load-lookup. If it is not what would be the alternative for using key field… ie I dont want to assign any column name to key and dont want to pass the value through lookup. I know its possible to use simple begin-select but is it possible through load-lookup..

I have a doubt whether load-lookup return multiple row for same key value.. If i want to do so wat i have to do…

What is the use of row in load-lookup

Pls..help to solve the queries

Thanks in Advance..
AnandhRaj

begin-procedure initialize_variables
! Do this procedure in a single command (plus a single command somewhere else)
  let #num_employees = 0
  let #total_pay = 0
  let #highest_pay = 0
  let #highest_paid_name = ''
  let #lowest_pay = 1000000
  let #lowest_paid_name = ''
  let $employee_list = 'Department employees: '
end-procedure initialize_variables

begin-procedure get_and_print_department_data
...
  add 1 to #num_employees
  add #pay to #total_pay
  if #pay > #highest_pay
    move #pay to #highest_pay
    move $name to $highest_paid_name
  end-if
  if #pay < #lowest_pay
    move #pay to #lowest_pay
    move $name to $lowest_paid_name
  end-if
  let $employee_names = $employee_name || $name || ' '
...
end-procedure get_and_print_department_data