On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Bruce Feist wrote:
otherguy wrote:
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 03:43 PM, MyLists wrote:
That gets me halfway there
BF: Does it?
No, I don't think it does, upon further consideration and testing... I thought it did b/c I read, and misinterpreted the UNION documentation....
BF: In your original question, you'd indicated that you only wanted zips where *both* criteria were met -- enough CIRGs and enough CILTs. By using a UNION, you'll be getting zips where *either* is met.
This is right.
The key for my situation is that I need ONLY the records that exist in BOTH.
Any other thoughts for this, or am I bumping up against the limits of SQL in general?
Well, keep in mind that although SQL can do a lot in a single statement, it can't always do *everything* required for a business function in one statement.
As I'm painfully aware of, but was hopeful about.
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Here's a sequence.
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I can't thank you enough for your time and effort. I should be able to tweak this enough to make it usable.
Thanks again. Now I just have to beat up the system guys for making me do this :)
Thank you, -Cameron Wilhelm
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