Ordinal Property (ADO MD Cell)

         

Return Values

Ordinal returns a Long integer and is read-only.

Remarks

The cell's ordinal value uniquely identifies the Cell within the Cellset. Conceptually, cells are numbered in a Cellset as if the Cellset were a p-dimensional array, where p is the number of axes. Cells are numbered starting from zero in row-major order. Here is the formula for calculating the ordinal number of a cell:

The cell's ordinal value can be used with the Item method of the Cellset object to quickly retrieve the cell.