>>>>I'm having a Monday morning brain fart. In my query, I am performing a union against several tables to return one result set. I'd like to perform a where clause against that entire result set, but I'm not figuring out how to do it.
>>>>
>>>>Something like:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>SELECT * FROM
>>>>(
>>>>
>>>>)
>>>>WHERE MyField = @MyFilter
>>>>
>>>
>>>Try using derived table (or CTE), e.g.
>>>
>>>;with cte as (Here goes UNIONoned query)
>>>
>>>select * from cte where ...
>>
>>Hi Naomi,
>>Your response took 2 minutes. I'd appreciate it if you could cut that down to 1 minute in the future. I am a busy person. (JUST KIDDING, thanks for the prompt response!)
>
>Smart of you to put kidding in upper case as some with big ego will not understand a joke unless you explicitly and unequivocally indicate that you are not serious. This, of course, does not apply to all present in this thread.
I try to be very explicit, especially when dealing with potential language barriers.