>Hello, everyone
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>It's about a MSSQL2k database. Some of the tables (used as junction tables) don't have a PK, but a compound pk, on two columns. My problem is now I have to find which records are in one table and aren't in another. This is a good candidate for a subselect
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select pk from table1 where pk not in (select pk from table2)
>. Well... I have two columns. How to say that? select col1,col2 from table1 where pk1,pk2....somebody stop me, I'm already laughing :0
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>Seriously, can anyone help me in this issue? (changing the tables is out of question)
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>Thank you.
In VFP, one way to do this would be combining the two fields into one - but I don't know how to do this with SQL Server.
You can of course bring all the data over to VFP cursors first.
I don't know whether SELECT - SQL subqueries allows for this case explicitly.
Hilmar.
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