>>>>>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.
I know what you mean. Whenever I talk to people from UK I try to use simpler words <g>.
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