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SQL error for blank child table
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From
07/05/2003 09:51:24
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
07/05/2003 09:29:11
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00785687
Message ID:
00785775
Views:
18
>When 2nd table has no matching records returned value is null causing sum() to be null. Check 'set null'. Also you can change your expressions to handle nulls. ie :
>
>instead of :
>SUM(Stockout.nqtyout)-SUM(Stockout.nqtyret) AS qtyout
>try :
>SUM( nvl(Stockout.nqtyout,0)-nvl(Stockout.nqtyret,0) ) AS qtyout

Çetin,

I agree in principle, but I suspect that that can cause fields that are too narrow (if the first records happen to have null values): better replace the 0 with something like 000000.00, or with $0, depending on the field type.
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