It's a bad idea to use one leter meaningless table aliases in a query. It makes the query totally unreadable. It also could be dangerous because letters A-J are reserved for workareas 1-10.

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>I have an SQL request, which is getting more complicated by the day.
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>To simplify my request,I have an SQL statement that selects a set of conditions from 2 joined tables finally LEFT OUTER JOINED to another Sub-select statement grouped by a summed field.
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>Now I would like the SUB SELECT STATEMENT to satisfy this condition - that the sub-Select Table only tabulates conditions where the child table has records corresponding to the primary select main table has a date between the Start Date and the End date of the child table in the sub-select.
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>Anyway, I am enclosing the code here, after removing some fields to make easy reading.
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>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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>SET enginebehavior 70
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>SELECT A.ddate,;
>B.Block,;
>C.cname as name,;
>C.narea as area,;
>ROUND(D.plants,2) as TotPlants,;
>FROM Dailywork2 A ;
>Inner Join Block2 B ;
>On A.cblock=B.block ;
>Left Outer JOIN ;
>BlockProfile C ON A.cblock = C.cparent;
>Left OUTER Join ;
>(select C.cparent,sum(C.narea*(43560/(C.nspx*C.nspy)),0))+(SUM(C.nrdmPlants)) as Plants ;
>FROM BlockProfile C  group by cparent ) D ;
>on D.cparent=A.cblock ;
>WHERE A.ddate < C.dstart
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>i.e. I require D to only sum data for which A.ddate falls between BlockProfile dStart and dEnd. My request is only for the sub select data
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>Thanks a lot,
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>Steve