OMIT order-by columns (was Re: Silly SQL question. )

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Jim:

On Mon, 17 December 2001, "Norbut, Jim" wrote:

> SELECT DBVEN_VENDOR AS VENDOR,
> DBVEN_USER_NAME_02 AS SP_ID,
> DBVEN_TAX_ID AS TAX_ID,
> DBVEN_VENDOR_VNAME AS VENDOR_NAME,
> DBVEN_VENDOR_SNAME,
> DBVEN_ADDR1 AS ADDR1,
> DBVEN_ADDR2 AS ADDR2,
> DBVEN_CITY_ADDR5 AS CITY,
> DBVEN_STATE_PROV AS STATE,
> DBVEN_POSTAL_CODE AS ZIP_CODE  FROM
> LAWDBF7/DBAPVEN WHERE DBVEN_VEN_CLASS = 'ISP'
> ORDER BY DBVEN_VENDOR_SNAME
>
> Any way of omitting the DBVEN_VENDOR_SNAME from the report
> While still having it order by it ?
>
> I thought there was an “OMIT” keyword or something…but nothing I try works.


Can you elaborate on one point? You show an example SELECT statement but ask 
the question about "the report". Can you describe what you use to jump from 
SELECT to "the report"?

That is, it might not be reasonably possible to omit a column if you're using 
some default means of printing the result set; but it might be easy to modify 
the program (or the query form or whatever is doing the printing).

For example, using a Query Manager form, you might use the 'Edit Column 
Formatting' option to set Usage to "OMIT" for that column.

Tom Liotta

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