Re: [SQL] VIEW on lookup table

2004-03-07 Thread JJ Gabor
> Yes. If you create a table with all of the values, 1 to 100,000+, and then > join that with lookup_data, using a "left outer join", and then use a > case statement for the value -- when NULL, 'Unknown', then it should > work. This would still require constructing a large table, which is wha

Re: [SQL] VIEW on lookup table

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan M. Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 2:18 pm, JJ Gabor wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a lookup table consisting of 100,000+ rows. > > 99% of the lookup values resolve to 'Unknown'. > > Building the lookup table takes a long time. > > I would like to remove the '

[SQL] VIEW on lookup table

2004-02-29 Thread JJ Gabor
Hello all, I have a lookup table consisting of 100,000+ rows. 99% of the lookup values resolve to 'Unknown'. Building the lookup table takes a long time. I would like to remove the 'Unknown' entries from the table and provide a VIEW to emulate them. The VIEW would need to provide all 100,000+