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Two queries is probably the easiest and most straight forward way. Write one query that selects the records desired (either the customers desired, or the date ranges desired) and then write another query against that output file to get the other datum needed (either the sales records or the customer records). Advantages of this method is that it is easily taught to your query user base and it is not the hog for performance some of the monolithic queries can be, --------------------------------------------------------- Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com Booth@MartinVT.com --------------------------------------------------------- -------Original Message------- From: midrange-l@midrange.com Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 07:43:12 AM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: query question I dont think query is what you want here. I think you really need a sort/merge. How about using OPNQRYF instead >>> Doug Johnson <djohnson@Univbkstr.com> 10/19/01 02:40PM >>> 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 ************************************************ DOUGLAS JOHNSON System Administrator The University Book Store 711 State Street Madison, WI 53703 djohnson@univbkstr.com 608-257-3784 608-257-9479(fax)
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