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Creating cursor with two children from one parent
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Vista
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01346532
Message ID:
01346548
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10
>Hi
>
>I'm trying to create a cursor from three tables
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>LINEMARKINGHEAD (parent)
>CUSTOMERS (child) ICUSTNO
>SITES (child) CODE
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>I want to extract all records from LINEMARKINGHEAD, but have the cursor contain the customer name and sitename. The line below works fine:-
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>SELECT linemarkinghead.icustno,customers.ccompany FROM linemarkinghead,customers WHERE linemarkinghead.icustno=customers.icustno INTO CURSOR  listtmp
>
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>but when I try to add the site I get far too many records:
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>SELECT linemarkinghead.icustno,customers.ccompany,sites.name FROM linemarkinghead,customers,sites WHERE ;
>linemarkinghead.icustno=customers.icustno AND linemarkinghead.siteno=sites.code INTO CURSOR  tmp
>
>
>Can you not have two children in a SELECT SQL statement?

Give an example of the data and what you want as the output. If there are 2 customers for a given parent and only one site for that given parent .. what do you want to see.
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
Memorial Business Systems, Inc. (www.mbs-intl.com)

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