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Removing double records, math problem
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15/06/2007 09:57:51
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01233421
Message ID:
01233488
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>Edward also made it clear to me that I am didn't describe that aspect clear enough. Rreading my text, I understand that.
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>The resulting table should be a concatenation of the 4 tables, with all duplicates removed, but that should happen in an evenly distributed way, like the numerical examples displayed.

Where I am confused about is that if these duplicate records are in fact duplicates how does the final table have any idea where the unique records came from? IOW, why not just do a union of the four tables that is distinct?
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