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What is a good way to join on two integer fields?
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Visual FoxPro
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
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01310968
Message ID:
01310974
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It depends on what indexes you have. If you have indexes on each int field than
select * from mytable1 join mytable2 ;
  on mytable1.intfld1 = mytable2.intfld1 and mytable1.intfld2 = mytable2.intfld2
It's also standard SQL that will run on most other backends w/o modifications.

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>I need to join two tables on 2 integer fields but not sure what is the best way to do it. Here is one way I see that it can be done:
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>select * from mytable1 join mytable2 on bintoc(mytable1.intfld1) + bintoc (mytable1.intfld2) =
>bintoc(mytable2.intfld1) + bintoc(mytable2.intfld2)
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>Is concatenating these two fields with BINTOC() the best way?
--sb--
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