>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I want to find all patients from our Live tables whose names don't match names in Stage tables. I can join based on cSSN and dDOB when both fields have data in them.
>>
>>In other words, something like:

>>select SN.cf_Name as cStage_fName, ;
>>SN.cl_Name as cStage_lName, SN.cm_Initial as cStage_mInitial, ;
>>NA.cf_Name, NA.cl_Name, NA.cm_Initial, NA.cNames_pk, PN.cSSN. PN.dDOB ;
>>from Stage_Patients inner join Stage_Names SN on ...
>>inner join Patients on ??????
>>inner join Names NA on Patients.cPatiens_pk = NA.cPointer_fk
>>.....

>>
>>I'm a little bit concerned about joining stage and life data tables. I want to join by SSN and dDOB when both have values. Should I put this into JOIN? Or I somehow can use WHERE instead?
>
>With INNER JOIN it doesn't make a difference if you put check for not empty SSN and dDOB into JOIN or WHERE.

Thanks. Now I have enough courage to start writing this select in code rather than in my head <g>