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Piter
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Hi,

I have god kind of surprise today.

All my constructions like

JOIN
LEFT_OUTER field1 IN FILE1 TO MULTIPLE field2 IN FILE2 TAG J0 AS J0 WHERE field3 NE -1 ;
END

stop working when I try them on WF 8007M. Is it normal?

Instead of that, Developer studio creates something like

JOIN
LEFT_OUTER FILE FILE1 AT field1 TO MULTIPLE FILE FILE2 AT field2 TAG J0 AS J0 WHERE (field1 EQ field2) AND (field3 NE -1) ;
END

Is it normal? Is there any parameter which can help to use already developed code?

Thank you for your help.



p.s. total nonsence... Installed 7704 back and all works again...

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,


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Francis Mariani
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The syntax for a conditional join has used the AT parameter since it was introduced:

JOIN [LEFT_OUTER|INNER] FILE hostfile AT hfld1 [WITH hfld2] [TAG tag1]
     TO {UNIQUE|MULTIPLE} 
     FILE crfile AT crfld [TAG tag2] [AS joinname]
     [WHERE expression1;
     [WHERE expression2;
     ...]
END
You just might be lucky that the conditional joins worked without the AT parameter... Code tightening in v8 perhaps?


Francis


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Piter
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ha-ha Smiler how to say lucky Smiler It is over 100 of procedures where it was fine before v8...

thanks you Francis, anyway. p.s. I am not sure if my original syntax without AT was created outside older Developer studio...


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Francis Mariani
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I just created a JOIN in Dev Studio v7.7.05:
JOIN
FILE TEST_FACT_ONE
AT TEST_FACT_ONE.TEST_FACT_ONE.BUS_DTE TO MULTIPLE
FILE TEST_DIM_CALENDAR AT TEST_DIM_CALENDAR.TEST_DIM_CALENDAR.BUS_DTE
TAG J0 AS J0
WHERE TEST_FACT_ONE.TEST_FACT_ONE.BUS_DTE EQ J0.TEST_DIM_CALENDAR.BUS_DTE;
END


Francis


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Danny-SRL
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Piter,
quote:
JOIN
LEFT_OUTER field1 IN FILE1 TO MULTIPLE field2 IN FILE2 TAG J0 AS J0 WHERE field3 NE -1 ;
END

It seems to me that you combined 2 different syntaxes:
"JOIN field IN file" does NOT support WHERE clauses.
"JOIN FILE file AT field" allows WHERE clauses.
See wf77crlang.pdf pages 827 - 847.
Probably WF 7.7 was lenient...


Daniel
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wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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Wep5622
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...and that's what you get for introducing two different syntaxes for the same thing...

I never understood why conditional joins had to have a different syntax. The only thing it seems to add is confusion.

I say: get rid of the conditional join syntax and add WHERE-clause syntax to regular joins. That cleans up the generated SQL too (why use implicit join syntax at all?).


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Danny-SRL
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It was probably easier for the developers...


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