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Combining SQL syntax
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From
17/10/2001 15:06:33
 
 
To
17/10/2001 14:52:17
Rex Mahel
Realm Software, Llc
Ohio, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00569838
Message ID:
00569853
Views:
19
>All,
>
>When creating SQL code in VFP, you can use one of two syntaxes:
>
>
>Syntax 1.:
>   SELECT ;
>      Table1.Field2,;
>      Table2.Field3 ;
>    FROM ;
>      Table1,;
>      Table2 ;
>    WHERE ;
>      Table1.Field1 = Table2.Field2 ;
>    INTO CURSOR SQLType1
>
>Syntax 2.
>   SELECT ;
>      Table1.Field2,;
>      Table2.Field3 ;
>      <b>Table3.Field2 ;</b>
>    FROM ;
>      Table1 ;
>    INNER JOIN Table2 ;
>      ON Table1.Field1 = Table2.Field2 ;
>    <b>JOIN Table3 ;
>      ON table1.field3 = table3.field1 ;</b>
>    INTO CURSOR SQLType1
>
>
>Type 1 allows the user to combine many more tables then Type2, but Type 2 allows the user to easily join tables in various ways (LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN etc).
>
>Is there a way to combine the two syntaxes?
>TIA
>
>Rex

Rex,

You can join additional tables with syntax 2. See changes in bold above.

HTH,
Steve Gibson
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