>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>Here's a very simplified version of a view (named History):

SELECT Id, Date,
>>>>>FROM  dbo.SCHeaders
>>>>>UNION
>>>>>Select Id, Date
>>>>>FROM dbo.Allocations
>>>>>UNION
>>>>>SELECT Id, Date
>>>>>FROM dbo.Detail

The view will always be used with a specific ID e.g :
>>>>>SELECT * FROM History WHERE ID='Fred'
>>>>>In this scenario there will always be only one record retrieved from the SCHeaders table.
>>>>>I need to exclude any records with a date that is earlier than that of the SCHeaders record from the result.
>>>>>FWIW this only need apply to the Detail table - there will be no such records in the Allocations table.
>>>>>
>>>>>A Sproc could be used if it is preferable....
>>>>>TIA
>>>>
>>>>Do an inner join and include the date condition in the Where clause?
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>After I bit of head scratching I gave up on this and modified the Linq that queried the view so that it dropped the surplus rows - so I no longer need to achieve this directly in SQL. That said, I'm still curious as to what would have been the best SQL solution. Can you expand a bit on what you are suggesting ?
>>>Best,
>>>Viv
>>

>>

>>
>>Viv,
>>
>>I don't have access to an sql server - so forgive me the foxpro syntax - you won't have any problem translating
>>
>>

>>select 	Id, ;
>>			Date ;
>>		from SCHeaders ;
>>		where	( Id = ?pId) ;
>>	union all ;
>>	select 	Id, ;
>>			Date ;
>>		from Allocations ;
>>		where	( Id = ?pId) ;
>>	union all ;
>>	select 	Id, ;
>>			Date ;
>>		from Detail ;
>>		where	( Id = ?pId) ;
>>			and	( date >= ( select Date from SCHeaders where 	( Id = ?pId) ) )
>>

Thanks! I sort of thought it would need to be a SP.
>Don't know what it is with me and SQL. Half the time I can't even write valid syntax - let alone come up with something that might give the right result :-{

What Mike probably meant was something like this

select 	Id, ;
			Date ;
		from SCHeaders ;
		where	( Id = ?pId) ;
	union all ;
	select 	Id, ;
			Date ;
		from Allocations ;
		where	( Id = ?pId) ;
	union all ;
	select 	Detail.Id, ;
			Detail.Date ;
		from SCHeaders  ;
			join Detail on ( Detail.Id == SCHeaders.Id) ;
				and	( Detail.Date >= SCHeaders.Date ) ;
		where	( SCHeaders.Id = ?pId) ;