Yes, that's true. But, sub-queries are there for a reason - you can use them
when you need to.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: SQL Help on Join

> Hi Deanna
>
> I guess I would have to do a sub-query  I always heard that a sub-query
was not very efficient and that doing a join was always better.
>
> Mike
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Deanna Schneider
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:51 PM
>   Subject: Re: SQL Help on Join
>
>
>   Mickael,
>   You probably want to do a sub-query to get the payments. I can never
>   remember the syntax for that when you're using the left outer join
syntax.
>   In Oracle, it would be something like this:
>
>   Select Count(*) as TotalAccounts,
>   Sum(Orig_amt) as SumOrig_AMT,
>   Sum(Cur_Bal) as SumCurBal,
>   sub.totalpayment
>   from Client_debt, (SELECT debt_id, Sum(Pmt_amt) as SUMPmtamt from
client_pmt
>   group by debt_id) AS sub
>   WHERE    client_debt.debt_id = sub.debt_id (+)
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Scott Weikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>   Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:37 PM
>   Subject: Re: SQL Help on Join
>
>   > Mickael writes:
>   > > Select Count(*) as TotalAccounts, Sum(Orig_amt) as SumOrig_AMT,
>   Sum(Cur_Bal) as SumCurBal, Sum(Pmt_amt) as SUMPmtamt
>   > > from Client_debt
>   > > Left outer join Client_pmt on client_debt.debt_id =
client_pmt.debt_id
>   >
>   > You're specifying the table names of the fields in your JOIN but not
in
>   your
>   > SELECT. Should be, for example, SUM(tablename.Orig_atm), etc.
>   >
>
>
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