Re: Stupid question

Nice to know, and loads simpler. Maybe this is the way to go. Still
wonder just what the heck I am doing wrong. Maybe a dumb question,
but with different column names, would SQL just compare data with no
reguard to column names?

John McKee

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:14 PM, CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 01 May 2012 09:16, John McKee wrote:

I have two files.  Different names, formats, and field names.

One is produced early in the day.

I need to remove records from the second file that are identical to
those in the first file. Thus, second file only has new and changed
records.

  FWiW: To create\view a set of new and changed records:

   select * from "Present Copy"  /* second file     */
    EXCEPT                       /* minus intersect */
   select * from "Earlier Copy"  /* first  file     */

Regards, Chuck
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