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John_Edwards
Virtuoso
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I am attempting to code selection criteria that looks like this --

Table File ABC
Sum MAX.EFFECTIVE_START_ID
Print . . .

(WHERE TOTAL MAX.EFFECTIVE_START_ID EQ EFFECTIVE_START_ID AND PRORATION_STATUS EQ 'L')
OR DIM_PERSON.EFFECTIVE_END_ID EQ MISSING

Focus is displeased. Does anyone know how I should talk nice to Focus to get it to digest this logic?

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Dave Ayers
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john,

Perhaps focus is displeased for the same reason I'm confused by the placement of your parenthesis.
ei: (WHERE... vs. WHERE (...


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Dave

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John_Edwards
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Not happy with either one.

J.



 
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FrankDutch
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Dave's answer is a bit cryptic...

change your where statement to

WHERE (TOTAL MAX.EFFECTIVE_START_ID EQ EFFECTIVE_START_ID AND PRORATION_STATUS EQ 'L' )
OR DIM_PERSON.EFFECTIVE_END_ID EQ MISSING




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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John_Edwards
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I understood what he said, but it just changes the error --

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 15 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC258) FIELDNAME OR COMPUTATIONAL ELEMENT NOT RECOGNIZED: TOTAL
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT

It appears that the WHERE must be up against the TOTAL in order for the parser to figure it out.

It may be that the internal matrix isn't pleased with a WHERE TOTAL and a WHERE being put in the same logic. That would be disappointing.

J.



 
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John_Edwards
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The original logic throws --

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 15 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC262) UNBALANCED PARENTHESES
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT


J.



 
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Francis Mariani
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TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
BY BODYTYPE
WHERE (TOTAL MAX.COUNTRY EQ COUNTRY AND SEATS EQ 4)
END


Remove the brackets and it works. But that doesn't help if you have subsequent OR clauses.

By the way, what does TOTAL MAX.EFFECTIVE_START_ID EQ EFFECTIVE_START_ID mean? Perhaps that clause could be coded differently. TOTAL and MAX???


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

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Frans
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This works:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
BY BODYTYPE
WHERE TOTAL (MAX.COUNTRY EQ COUNTRY AND SEATS EQ 4 OR COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND')
END


Test: WF 8.2
Prod: WF 8.2
DB: Progress, REST, IBM UniVerse/UniData, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Greenplum, Athena.
 
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j.gross
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This is probably what's intended:
WHERE 
    PRORATION_STATUS EQ 'L'  
OR  DIM_PERSON.EFFECTIVE_END_ID IS MISSING; 

WHERE TOTAL  
   MAX.EFFECTIVE_START_ID EQ EFFECTIVE_START_ID;


- Jack Gross
WF through 8.1.05
 
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John_Edwards
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Jack's where statements appear mathematically equivalent and work like a dream. Thanks bud!

J.



 
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Danny-SRL
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John,

What happened was that you were mixing two very different WHERE statements:
1. WHERE ...
2. WHERE TOTAL ...
They must be separate:
WHERE acts on input records
WHERE TOTAL acts on output lines

Jack's syntax effectively did that.


Daniel
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