>Help, I am a rank SQL beginner...
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>I am trying to produce a ledger summary report. I have a lookup table that includes some descriptive text, a budget amount, and a budget code. I want to produce a table that is like this with a field for amount spent. The amount spent should come from a check table, linked on the budget code. But, those budget codes that have not been used don't show up. I need those to show though. What am I doing wrong?
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>Here is what I have so far...
>select lkacode.account, description, aie_code, budget, sum(achecks.amount);
> from g:\artfox\aie\lkacode, g:\artfox\aie\achecks;
> where lkacode.account = achecks.account;
> and lkacode.aie_code = achecks.itemcode;
> into table f:\artfox\aledsumm


Mike is right! An outer join is the ticket to the show! But since Fox SQL is not 100% SQL compliant, U must write an SQL routine which uses the UNION clause.

select A.account, A.description, A.aie_code, ;
A.budget, sum(B.amount) as Calc_Amt ;
from g:\artfox\aie\lkacode A, g:\artfox\aie\achecks B; 0