I don't believe you can have the level of uncertainty you are hoping for in the join condition. Have you considered using BETWEEN() in the join condition.

>I want to JOIN one table with another one. The fields should be joined by date. Instead of the exact date, I want to find a record, in the second table, whose date is closest (<=) to a certain date in the first table. In other words, an exact match may, or may not, exist.
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>Can this be done with SQL - SELECT syntax? I was thinking about the workaround of writing a function that gets the PK of the second table, and then use that field for the join. However, I was wondering whether there was a simpler way to do this.
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>TIA, Hilmar.