Delphi ADO

Requirements: Answer 1 simple question and provide an example unit and procedure with less than 3 lines of code. Details: When opening a query in Delphi you would use this code. [login to view URL]; The examplequery has sql tstrings like this. select * from exampletable A query must be opened to enter edit or insert mode (which neither is a lookup) because action cannot be performed on a closed dataset. The Question is : How do you open a query and return 0 results but still can append or insert ?