Re: RE: QUERY TO SQL

Mike -

This is just a hunch, but it sounds like something that has bitten me
before.

The problem may be your test using UOARA (I assume this is in the 2nd
file?). If there is no match in the 2nd file, then this test will fail, so
no unmatched records will be returned.  You might want to try " . . .
(UOARA=' ' OR UOARA IS NULL) . . ." , with the caveat that this will pick
up all records in the 1st file that don't have a match in the 2nd and meet
the UMSTS test.

hth

midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
>Rick,
>that didn't work either.  it doesn't pick up the records from first file
>where there is no match in the second file.
>
>i think in one of my many attempts i had tried this, but at this point i'm
>not sure anymore.  seems like this should be real simple.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:17 AM
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>Subject: QUERY TO SQL
>
>
>
>Mike,
>
>you were close with your 'left outer join' attempt, but you need to
>separate your 'join on' from your 'where' clauses.
>try this:
>
>SELECT UMACT, UMPRM, UMSTS, UOACT, UOARA
>FROM uact left outer join
>     uactov
>  on umact = uoact
>where Uoara = '' and
>      umsts in('AC', 'PN')
>
>Rick


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