>I have a clients table and a locations table. Each client has and address that is in the locations table. I want to join the clients table to the locations table so I can replace the address in the clients table with the key to that address in the locations table.
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>For the most part, there is only one of each address in the locations table. But because I'm working with bad data, there might be more than one.
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>Is there a join that will take one and only one of each client and match it up to the first address in locations that it finds, and doesn't make a second entry of the same client for the second address in locations?
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>Thanks,
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>-Michelle

If the tables are just in VFP, you can by slight cheating...

select a.keyid, a.name, a.fld2, a.fld3,;
       b.address, b.city, b.etc, ;
       count(*);
  from client a, location b;
  where a.keyid = b.keyid
  group by a.keyid

This will create a single record based on each key but grab the details for only the first hit in the joined table...

But if you are creating a cursor just to re-update the clients table, you can do a similar process to the delete option...

use location
set order to keyid
select 0
use clients
set rela to keyid into location
replace all fld1 with location.fld1, fld2 with location.fld2

This way, you don't need a cursor and then update from the cursor...