RE: Left join question (was: SQL table joins: Join vs. Where) -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Left join question (was: SQL table joins: Join vs. Where)
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:55:45 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Goodbar, Loyd
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:19 AM
>
> Where you have T04.CUSNM in your SELECT ALL, you could substitute:
>
> Coalesce(T04.CUSNM, '* Customer ' concat trim(T01.CUNOCV) concat ' not
> found. *')
>
> This will show you the missing customers when you change to your
> left join.

Coalesce is a beautiful thing!  Thanks Loyd!  (And Wayne; I'll have to learn
more about ifnull)

db

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