Re: QUERY

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:58 12/15/1998 -0500, Raj wrote:
>FILE  1
>FILE  2     both   Joined by   OBJECT NAME.
>
>We generate   a   report    with   OBJECT NAME             OBJECT  TYPE
>OBJ  LIB        TEXT  DESC         FLAG
>
>PROBLEM :    We are getting  two  detail lines  whenever   there are two
>records for the same  object on the FILE1.

You could use GROUP BY (probably on OBJECT_NAME, OBJECT_TYPE, and LIB, and
(dummy) summary functions on the rest like MAX(TEXT_DESC), MAX(FLAG). If
these values are always identical anyway, it won't make any difference in
the output, except that you will only see it one time.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh
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