>>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.
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>Hilmar,
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>Take a look at thread #
550067. This question came up there and the solution was a non-SQL one. (or a combination)
>HTH
Thank, Crescencio. It seems I need to adapt some ideas from the thread you mentioned, especially message #
550500, by Sergey.
Hilmar.
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