trying the SQL mailing list. I replied and forwarded this to that list in an
effort to get it over to "the SQL people". They're really great at this sort
of stuff, and you might get a faster, better response from it.
Have at it, "SQL people".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce, Rodney S HQISEC/Veridian IT Services"
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SQL Help
> Hi all
>
> I need some help with a query that supplies a report.
>
> The issue for me is one of the tables: (simplified)
>
> Table
> UID Name Description Parent Project_id
>
>
> This table contains different information in the same field (name),like
the
> projects status (Initializing, Engineering, etc) , the type of project
> (Contractor, Govt), and condition (Open, Closed).
>
> So projects can have 1, 2 or 3 records in this table.
>
> The problem is if the user wants a report of all Open-Engineering-Govt
> projects.
>
> Name is a Text field.
>
> So I can get all the open with:
>
> WHERE name LIKE '%Open%'
> (needs to be LIKE because the information is not consistant, ie: Open, is
> Open, Opened, etc).
>
> But
>
> WHERE name LIKE '%Open%' and name LIKE '%Engineering%'
> gets me nothing becuase the field cant be both at same time
>
> and
> WHERE name LIKE '%Open%' or name LIKE '%Engineering%'
> gets me projects that are closed as well as open
>
> I can get the information I need by running mulitple queries:
>
> <CFQUERY name="first">
> WHERE name LIKE '%Open%'
> </CFQUERY>
>
> <CFOUTPUT query="first">
> <CFQUERY name="second">
> WHERE name LIKE '%Engineering%' and project_ID =
> #first.project_id#
> </CFQUERY>
> <CFIF second.recordcount GT 0>
> is both opened and Engineering.
> </CFIF>
> </CFOUTPUT>
>
> But this is cumbersome.
>
> anyone know a better way?
>
> We are using: CF5 and SQL 2000.
>
> Thanks
> Rodney
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