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>>>>Thank you for clarifying. Sorry that I didn't pay attention to the semicolons. I will test this approach in both VFP and SQL Server. Initially I thought I would do it using a Function (with pretty much similar code that you wrote). But view is probably better approach (although I don't yet understand why).
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>>>> But view is probably better approach (although I don't yet understand why).
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>>>I think it is because a view is faster.
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>>>btw - I have used nvl() in case there are no invoices yet. I think the sqlserver equivalent is ISNULL()
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>>Thank you for the NVL() and ISNULL() explanation.
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>If you want to do it for particular Order, you have two choices. Select * from OrdersView where OrderID = @OrderId
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>or alternatively create the above as a table values inline function, so it will be
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>select * from dbo.OrdersInfo(@OrderID)
Thank you.
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