On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:15 PM, <libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Don Parris wrote: > >> Still trying to work out the OUTER JOIN syntax apparently. I tried a >> simpler outer join statement: >> SELECT >> "tCoreType"."type" "Type", "tCoreCategory"."category" "Category" >> FROM {oj "tCoreType" "ctype" LEFT OUTER JOIN "tCoreCategory" "ccat" >> ON "ctype"."type_id" = "ccat"."type_id"} >> >> >> This gives me the following error: >> SQL Status: S0022 >> Error code: -28 >> >> Column not found: tCoreType.type in statement [SELECT "tCoreType"."type" >> "Type", "tCoreCategory"."category" "Category" FROM "tCoreType" >> "ctype" >> LEFT OUTER JOIN "tCoreCategory" "ccat" ON "ctype"."type_id" = >> "ccat"."type_id" ] >> >> The column "type" is most certainly one of the columns in the specified >> table. No matter what order or how I try to enter this, it just comes up >> with an error message. Any ideas? I really would like to learn how to >> make this work. >> > > "tCoreType" "ctype" in the FROM clause renames the "tCoreType" as "ctype" > for the purposes of this query. So in the SELECT clause you need to refer > to it as "ctype", as you have done in the join condition. Likewise for > renaming "tCoreCategory" to "ccat". So: > SELECT "ctype"."type" "Type", "ccat"."category" "Category" ... > > Mark. > > > > Aha! Many thanks Mark! I was looking right past that. I've revised and re-run it - it's working now. Additionally, I wrote another test query that worked even without the '{oj}' syntax. Again, I appreciate the help - and your patience - from both you and Luuk! -- D.C. Parris, FMP, Linux+, ESL Certificate Minister, Security/FM Coordinator, Free Software Advocate http://dcparris.net/ <https://www.xing.com/profile/Don_Parris> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcparris> GPG Key ID: F5E179BE -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted