Ugh.
Since I do not want to have to re-write all my aggregate function containing queries upon modifications to the table definitions (and I do not want to write multi-thousand character long SELECT statements), maybe it is easier to use a temp table intermediary?
Ugly... ugly... any other ideas on how to do this? My table definitions LITERALLY have hundreds of columns, and I need access to them all.
How about using a view? Create a view that contains only the ID columns, and then a second view encorporating the first view which joins to the appropriate tables and fetches the columns you want in the output of your query.
Just a thought.
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Russ.
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