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22/01/1999 13:02:42
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00179045
Message ID:
00179067
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>>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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>If you don't mind doing a two stage query.
>
>SELECT * FROM locations GROUP BY id GROUP BY ID INTO CURSOR locations2
>SELECT clients.*, locations2.address FROM clients, locations WHERE clients.id = locations2.id INTO CURSOR clientloc
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>ID is the unique key between the two tables.

I don't think that'll do it. You're joining on clientid. There's definitely a one to many relationship there. I need to find the client's address in the list of locations.

Thanks,

-Michelle
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