BTW, you can update your reply as long as it doesn't have replies. There is an update button beneath the message.

I would also encourage everyone to fix misplaced PRE tags immediatelly after posting a message. It's quite tiresome job to fix them myself...

>(I submitted this twice since I had forgotten to use the "pre" command to format the output below.)
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>I am trying to write a SQL Statement that has three tables. I am looking at WIRE STANDS being received from various customers WITHOUT WIRE on them into our Company and a certain number being sent out to customers WITH WIRE on them.
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>We have the following tables:
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>CUSTOMERS-Holds all of our customers company names and CUST ID.
>STANDSIN - with a field called Qty for stands received from customers
>STANDSOUT- also with a field called Qty for stands shipped out
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>Customer has a CUST field and is indexed as CUST.
>StandsIn and StandOut also have CUST as one of their related fields to the CUSTOMER table.
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>I want to end up with a report GROUPED by CUSTOMERS showing stands Received and Stands shipped out as followed:
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>NAME OF CUSTOMER QTY Recv'd QTY Sent Out Difference (Recv'd-Shipped)
>CUSTOMER_A       13         23           -10
>CUSTOMER_B       98         58           40
>CUSTOMER_C       112        140          -28
>CUSTOMER_D       1000       980          20
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>What we are trying to do is to focus on the customers who have not been returning our stands, so that if we see a negative number, we know that that customer has not been returning our WIRE STANDS and can then focus on them.
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>I tried a regular UNION SQL Statement, but that didn't seem right. Would this require more of a LEFT OUTER JOIN type of statement?