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[SOLVED] can we do a union using webfocus Join...?

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March 28, 2011, 04:19 PM
craig01
[SOLVED] can we do a union using webfocus Join...?
Hi all,
can someone explain me how the union can be performed using a Wf Join,i know it can be done using the match (OLD OR NEW),but want to know How to accomplish union using join..

please reply,thanks.

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March 28, 2011, 04:30 PM
Waz
You don't do it with a JOIN, but with TABLE FILE and the MORE command.

e.g.
TABLE FILE {Data source 1}
PRINT FIELDs
BY FIELDs
{Filters}
ON TABLE HOLD ...
MORE
FILE {Data source 2}
{Filters}
END  


This does rely on the two tables having the same columns specified by the first part of the request.

Any Filters are local to the individual data source.


Waz...

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March 28, 2011, 05:08 PM
craig01
thank you very much WAZ.


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January 17, 2017, 03:11 PM
Squatch
quote:
Originally posted by Waz:
You don't do it with a JOIN, but with TABLE FILE and the MORE command.

e.g.
TABLE FILE {Data source 1}
PRINT FIELDs
BY FIELDs
{Filters}
ON TABLE HOLD ...
MORE
FILE {Data source 2}
{Filters}
END  


This does rely on the two tables having the same columns specified by the first part of the request.

Any Filters are local to the individual data source.

Hello, Waz from the Past, this is Squatch from the Future.

Could the "same columns" be DEFINE fields?


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January 17, 2017, 03:51 PM
Waz
quote:
Could the "same columns" be DEFINE fields?


Yes, done it many times.

As long as the formats in each are the same.

[And jumps pack in his Delorean].....


Waz...

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January 17, 2017, 03:57 PM
Squatch
quote:
Originally posted by Waz:
[And jumps pack in his Delorean].....

Thanks! And you somehow sounded taller back then.


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January 17, 2017, 04:03 PM
Waz
Cool


Waz...

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