Re: Embedded SQL: ORDER BY

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: SCarter@rsrcorp.com <SCarter@rsrcorp.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Embedded SQL: ORDER BY


>can you do a UNION with another file with the m.* syntax?
>     select substr(myfield,1,2), m.* from myfile m order by
>     1 UNION select count(substr,1,2) ???????? from myfile
>
>Would this work? Is this the correct syntax even? Am I nutty for even
>asking?


not nutty, but look at your union. Union requires the result sets to map the
same. The count function won't map the same as a substring operation.


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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