Isn't this equivalent to my query?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Guill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:11 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Query Question

You almost had it:

SELECT
eventID,
eventName,
eventDate,
FROM event a
INNER JOIN eventDates b ON a.eventID = b.eventID AND eventDate > #now()#

actually just learned this yesterday ;)

On 11/16/05, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have 2 tables, for the sake of simplification lets say they look like
> this:
>
>
>
> EVENT
>
> eventID
>
> eventName
>
>
>
>
>
> EVENTDATES
>
> eventID
>
> eventDate
>
>
>
> Each event would be in the event table once, and possibly multiple times
in
> the eventDates table.  I want to have a query return one record for each
> event with the next eventDate from the eventDates table.
>
>
>
> So basically something like:
>
>
>
> Select eventID, eventName, eventDate from event inner join eventDates on
> event.eventID=eventDates.eventID where eventDate>#Now()#
>
>
>
> But I only want 1 record returned for each event. I know I can probably
> order by eventID and then do a cfoutput groupby, but I don't really want
all
> those records coming back (I mean it will basically be number of records
in
> the event table * number of records in the eventDates table).
>
>
>
> Is there a more efficient way of doing this?
>
>
>
> 



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