EXCELLENT! I can make it work with this little command. Fabulous, Fabio!
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>I want to do a join between two tables - but there are three possible ways I can join them.
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>I know I can do three JOIN ... AS ... statements and just have a seperate result field for each option (which I can subsequently check in code with nested Visual FoxPro IIF's), but I was hoping for a prettier way involving fewer fields in the returned cursor.
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>Any suggestions from the experts out there?
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>COALESCE() function:
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>SELECT * FROM table1 join table2
>on table2.primarykey=
>COALESCE(
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>table1.foreignKey
>- but if it doesn't, I'll create a join on another field (through an intermediate table)
>,(SELECT * FROM intermediateTable where ???=anotherfield)
>and if there's no corresponding record in the intermediate table, I'll try a join on another field before finally giving up and returning a NULL.
>,(try with another table)
>)
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Kogo Michael Hogan
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