Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Richard White
Not necessarily. How many records are in joinQuery? It should just have one, empty record. The point of the first query is to get the columns, but not to select any records; the empty record is created directly below it. oh yes your right joinquery shouldnt have any records basically i am trying

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Richard White
ok im getting there and have narrowed it down to 1 more problem - i hope!! the problem is coming from the second part of the union where i am trying to find the rows that are eliminated in the first inner join part this problem only stems from the fact that i have more than 1 primary key if i

RE: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Brad Wood
This is off the top of head, but what if you did: where not (queryA.ID1 in #valuelist(queryB.id1)# and queryA.ID2 in #valuelist(queryB.id2)# and queryA.ID3 in #valuelist(queryB.id3)#) That way the valuelists are done together as a group, and then the not applies to all of them combined. Does

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Richard White
Hi Brad, i thought that would work but not producing the result as expected, it still returns no rows on 2 queries where i know queryb has 15 rows that are not in querya therefore it should be returning those 15 but is not thanks This is off the top of head, but what if you did: where not

RE: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Brad Wood
in (#valuelist(queryA.id3)#)) /cfquery cfdump var=#qry_left_outer# ~Brad -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: left outer join on query of query function Hi Brad, i thought that would work

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Richard White
thanks for the description brad, yes sorry i wrote it wrong they do exists in query a and not in query b so i want to find those that exist in querya and not in query b. however your example is quite detailed and shows that the 'where not ()' clause should do the trick so there must be

RE: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Brad Wood
confirming that what you think exists in them actually does. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Richard White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: left outer join on query of query function thanks for the description brad, yes sorry i wrote

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Richard White
thanks brad no i hadn't omitted them for simplicity, i will try that as well then thanks again you have been really helpful, will let you know what happens Ok, good luck. Note: I had to fiddle a little bit for my example to work. For instance, there needed to be () around the output of the

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-07-01 Thread Richard White
actually just looked at my real example and i do have the brackets!!! i think tiredness is getting me now, ill stop till tomorrow and try again, i find sometimes just taking my mind away from it makes it easier when i come back thanks again richard thanks brad no i hadn't omitted them for

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-06-30 Thread Richard White
i see, thanks for your help dave, i am actually trying to do this on more than 1 primary key and it is not producing any errors when i add the joinquery.* but it is producing 2 times more rows than i expect, so it must be me missing a where clause somewhere. seeing as you also indicate this

RE: left outer join on query of query function

2008-06-30 Thread Dave Watts
i see, thanks for your help dave, i am actually trying to do this on more than 1 primary key and it is not producing any errors when i add the joinquery.* but it is producing 2 times more rows than i expect, so it must be me missing a where clause somewhere. Not necessarily. How many

RE: left outer join on query of query function

2008-06-29 Thread Dave Watts
i have been following the following link that discusses how to do a left outer join on a query of query: http://www.bealearts.co.uk/blog/2007/06/20/how-to-do-an-outer- join-in-query-of-queries/ this is the code that is meant to do it: cfquery name=”joinQuery”

Re: left outer join on query of query function

2008-06-29 Thread Richard White
thanks Dave, i basically have just copied and pasted the code from the link i pasted above: do you have any idea how to rectify this or even if this would work. the guy indicates that his code is the finished product but now that credibility is lost, so just wondering whether you think it is

RE: left outer join on query of query function

2008-06-29 Thread Dave Watts
i basically have just copied and pasted the code from the link i pasted above: do you have any idea how to rectify this or even if this would work. I hadn't read the link, just looked at your code. Not having read the code, I didn't realize that joinQuery would contain a single record with