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=* (left outer join) *= (right outer join) in the join section Ben On Jun 5, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Wolf, Gene wrote: Yep. This was the kind of thing I was looking for. Didn't know you could do "ON shipping.toloc = ....." Thanks for your help all. Appreciate the feedback! -----Original Message----- From: William Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:12 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Question of joins Gene, You're after something like this? SELECT shipping.id, shipping.FromLoc, shipping.ToLoc, To_location.name, From_location.name FROM shipping LEFT JOIN locations To_location ON shipping.ToLoc = To_location.id LEFT JOIN locations From_location ON shipping.FromLoc = From_location.id WHERE ... On Jun 5, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Beverly Voth wrote:
Gene, if these are in an array, then you have to look them up, eh? :D If they are in a SQL table, you have to query them, right? You have a "join table". If you are creating these "on-the-fly" and putting the values into an array, why not put the "text" locations into columns, too, as you make the "join table/array"? -- Beverly Voth Tier3 Data & Web Services Group, LLC 606-864-0041 http://www.tier3web.com/xml.htm Certified FileMaker 7 Developer * FileMaker Business Alliance Web Design & Hosting Coldfusion, Witango, PHP, MS SQL, MySQL, FMP, XML/XSLT, CSS Over 12 years experience integrating databases and the internet! On 6/5/07 11:44 AM, "Wolf, Gene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in whole or in part:I knew this wasn't going to be clear the first time. *laughs* Assume a record with the following fields and data: Field names: RecID FromLoc ToLoc 1 10 12 2 14 10 3 11 9 4 12 11 Now, the from and to locations are simply keys to another table containing the description. My question is, what is the easiest way to display the text value of the from and to location values other than iterating through an array and looking up each individual value? ________________________________ From: Jesse Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:32 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Question of joins I'm not sure I'm following you. I think you have a file that contains an "array" of values, and you want to do a join-like operation with your DB for reporting purposes. If this is the case, you can probably use <@FILTER> to get only the relevant records from each array. If you post more detail, I will try to give you the filter expression. I think you might be happier in the long run if you put your list of values in the DB, instead of using the file to store these values - that way you can use a simple join, and it's likely to be much faster than any file-based operations. -----Original Message----- From: Wolf, Gene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:00 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: Question of joins This is probably simplistic and perhaps more of a SQL question than a Witango question but I'm going to ask anyway. *laughs* I have an application set up where a user selects a from location and a to location, from a dropdown list, of something they are shipping. The dropdown list is populated from a file and the resulting from and to location codes are recorded to a database record in separate fields named shipfrom and shipto. No problem so far. Everything works perfectly. Now, in reporting I want to show the description of the ship from and ship to locations. I can read the records into an array and look up each location from the database and then display the array when done but that seems inefficient, especially when I have to use a for loop to process the array. Is there some way to join two different fields on the same lookup table, in a Witango search action, in order to pull different text values for each of the fields? Gene Wolf______________________________________________________________________
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