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Is there a way to simplify this selection
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15/12/2005 14:48:19
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01078376
Message ID:
01078419
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This one works very nice ... Thanks / Jim

>Another one
SELECT DISTINCT mt.* FROM mytable mt ;
>	JOIN TempAcctList ON acct IN (acct1, acct2, acct3)
>
>>I have an old DBF that I'm accessing that has account numbers stored in 9 fields, "ACCT1", "ACCT2", etc.
>>
>>I need to select all records where any of these accounts appear in a list of accounts which is in a cursor ("TempAcctList") with one field.
>>
>>Is there any simpler way to select these records than the following:
>>
SELECT * From OldTable ;
>>where acct1 in (select * from TempAcctList) ;
>>or acct2 in (select * from TempAcctList) ;
>>or acct3 in (select * from TempAcctList) ;
>>... etc, through all nine accounts
>>I can certainly do this, but am just wondering if there's any simpler construction, or more efficient way to do this.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
Jim Nelson
Newbury Park, CA
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