query question

[Doug Johnson <djohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I am trying to write a query that will pull data from several files.  They
do have a common field that I will use for the selection, but joining the
files on that field of course results in extraneous records in the output. I
need some way to merge the data selected instead and then sort it by
customer and date.

This is what we are looking for as output for example:

charge account activity sorted by account # and date

Customer number Date1   Item1   Purchase amount
                        Date1   Item2   Purchase amount
                        Date2   Item1   Purchase Amount
                        Date3   Payment amount
                        Date4   Item1   Purchase amount
                        Date5   Payment Amount


Purchases and payment history are separate files with different fields and
formats.

Am I missing the obvious here or is it not possible to do this with query?

Thanks,

-doug


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