>The smart safe transaction table has two possible eventcode values DECL and VER
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>a VER transaction can relate to one or DECL transactions.
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>The verifyid column in a DECL transaction points to the VER transaction for that row, if any.
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>I was to select ALL DECL rows where the verifyid column is 0 or if it's not zero the postingdate in the related VER transaction is earlier than a given date
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>I get this far and go blank
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>select * from view_expandedsmartsafetrans where eventcode = 'DECL' and verifyid = 0 
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Ignore my last post...clearly I haven't had enough coffee...I misread your line and thought it said, "I get this far and GOT blanks", i.e., you got zero results.

My bad.