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Comparing two SQL cursors
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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Thread ID:
00239523
Message ID:
00239543
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Evan:

I have 30+ fields to validate .....

Out of interest the SELECT * FROM ..... WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT ... FROM ...) only works with one primary field ?

Regards
Mark

>You would need to do two select. First to find out what is in c1 and is not in c2 and the other way around. An example is below. Note: you need to compare each column.
>
>
>SELECT * from c1 ;
> WHERE c1.field1 <> c2.field2 AND ;
>       c1.field2 <> c2.field2 AND ;
>INTO CURSOR
>
>
>Al alternative if what you really wanted was the two tables merged without any duplicates would be to UNION them together then do a GROUP BY on every field in the table. The result is all records from both tables without duplicates.
>
>>I have pulled data from two separate SQL tables, and I need to find which rows are different. They have exactly the same structure.
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>>I have the two views which I will call cFirstSQL and cSecondSQL and I did the following thinking that this would work;
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>>SELECT * from cFirstSQL WHERE NOT EXSISTS (SELECT * FROM cSecondSQL)
>>
>>I get not data, and there are differences.
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