Michelle, if you eliminate duplicates by "purno" then the value of "chfile" will be meaningless since, well, only one value (either "C" or "H") will be returned.


>Ok, is seems like I knew how to do this, but for some reason, I'm just not making the right connections this morning. :) I have this union:
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>SELECT purno, potype, purdate, currid, postat, puramt, recamt, vendno, company, "C" AS chfile ;
>  FROM a_pomast ;
>  INTO CURSOR ac_pomast ;
>UNION ;
>SELECT purno, potype, purdate, currid, postat, puramt, recamt, vendno, company, "H" AS chfile ;
>  FROM a_poymst
>

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>There are some records that are in both tables. Normally, they would be filtered out as duplicates. But because I added that extra field to tell me which table they came from, they're showing up as unique. How do I tell it to filter duplicates based just on the purno?
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle