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How to use subquery
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01514285
Message ID:
01514289
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41
>I am trying to figure out how to use a subquery in the following example:
>
>Table1
>PK_FLD, TASK_NO
>
>Table2
>TASK_NO, FLDA, FLDB
>
>I want the resulting query to have as many records as there are in Table1 adding columns FLDA and FLDB from
>Table2 according to the matching TASK_NO.
>
>My attempt at this query is as following
>
>Select Table1.PK_FLD, Table1.TASK_NO, T2.FLDA, T2.FLDB from Table1 where (select * from Table2 where 
>TASK_NO = Table1.TASK_NO) T2 
>
>
>But I get error of incorrect use of subquery. What am I missing? TIA.

You need to use a simple JOIN here, not a subquery (unless you wanted just one record from the second table), e.g.
select T1.*, T2.* from Table1 T1 INNER JOIN Table2 T2 on T1.Task_No = T2.Task_No
Instead of select * use the actual field names.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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