[Gambas-user] Forbid DataSource to fetch certain fields

[Tobias Boege]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Tobias Boege wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> rocko's recent question brought me back to a problem I once had:
> We have a database at school which contains a lot of big blobs (PDFs of
> student papers). It consequently takes an unneccessary amount of time to
> load all the records in there. My question is hence: Can I tell the DataView

read the last word as: DataSource ;-)

> to only load certain fields from the database table? I think of some
> DataSource.Columns property that does:
> 
> sReq = "SELECT " & DataSource.Columns.Join() & " FROM " & ...
> 
> I saw something similar in the DataTable.class source code but I couldn't
> figure out how to get the $aKey there modified. I think you'll know better.
> 
> Can someone please point me in the right direction?
> 
> Regards,
> Tobi