RE: Basic SQL Help

Cool...thank you.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:02:25 -0400, CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> Nope, a union joins two subselect.
> 
> Basically you have two separate select statements that return results. 
> The
> union combines the two result sets into 1 result set.
> 
> select flda, fldb, fldc
> from file1
> 
> union 
> 
> select flda, fldb, fldc
> from file2
> 
> 
> 
> if file1 has:
> f1a1, f1b1, f1c1
> f1a2, f1b2, f1c2
> f1a3, f1b3, f1c3
> 
> and file2 has
> f2a1, f2b1, f2c1
> f2a2, f2b2, f2c2
> f2a3, f2b3, f2c3
> 
> the results of the UNION is:
> f1a1, f1b1, f1c1
> f1a2, f1b2, f1c2
> f1a3, f1b3, f1c3
> f2a1, f2b1, f2c1
> f2a2, f2b2, f2c2
> f2a3, f2b3, f2c3
> 
> 
> Note that the two subselects must have the same numbers and types of
> columns.  Which means you may have to add some dummy fields or change
> numeric fields to char.
> 
> HTH,
> Charles
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:36 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Basic SQL Help
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks Carel...I'll give it a try...and I'll also study up on 
> > UNION. Is
> > that like a subselect?
> > 
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:23:53 +0200, "Carel Teijgeler"
> > <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > Michael,
> > > 
> > > A rudimentary shot without testing:
> > > 
> > > SELECT 'A' AS Code, a.parent, b.id, c.child, d.id
> > > FROM fileA a, fileB b, fileA c, fileB d
> > > WHERE (a.parent = b.sku AND b.id = 1
> > > AND  c.child = d.sku and d.id = 5
> > > AND  a.parent = c.parent)
> > > UNION
> > > SELECT 'B' AS Code a.parent, b.id, c.child, d.id
> > > FROM fileA a, fileB b, fileA c, fileB d
> > > WHERE (a.parent = b.sku AND b.id = 1
> > > AND  c.child = d.sku and d.id = 9
> > > AND  a.parent = c.parent)
> > > ORDER BY Code, a.parent
> > > 
> > > To get the description in you have to put in fileC twice, 
> > each with a
> > > different alias.
> > > 
> > > In QMQRY you can create a FORM to omit the column Code and 
> > break on the
> > > column a.parent.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Carel Teijgeler
> > > 
> > > 
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