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Mark1
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I have two tables that do not have a common field. Like this:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY
-*ON TABLE HOLD AS TABLE2
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
-*ON TABLE HOLD AS TABLE1
END

What I need is to merge these two together so that the finished table will have each country value will be repeated for each car. So you would have:

Country | Car
ENGLAND | JAGUAR
ENGLAND | JENSEN
ENGLAND | TRIUMPH
ENGLAND | PEUGOT
ENGLAND | ALPHA ROMEO
ENGLAND | MASERATI
ENGLAND | DATSUN
ENGLAND | TOYOTA
ENGLAND | AUDI
ENGLAND | BMW
FRANCE | JAGUAR
FRANCE | JENSEN
FRANCE | TRIUMPH
FRANCE | PEUGOT
FRANCE | ALPHA ROMEO
FRANCE | MASERATI
FRANCE | DATSUN
FRANCE | TOYOTA
FRANCE | AUDI
FRANCE | BMW
... so on and so forth.

Any WF code I can use? If not, any SQL code I can use?

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Francis Mariani
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Try this, a variation of the "McGyver Technique":

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY
COMPUTE DUMMY1/A1 = '';
ON TABLE HOLD AS H001 FORMAT FOCUS INDEX DUMMY1
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
COMPUTE DUMMY1/A1 = '';
ON TABLE HOLD AS H002 FORMAT FOCUS INDEX DUMMY1
END
-RUN

JOIN DUMMY1 IN H001 TO ALL DUMMY1 IN H002 AS J1

TABLE FILE H001
PRINT
COUNTRY
CAR
BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
BY CAR NOPRINT
END


Francis


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T.Peters
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Could you just do a cross join instead of a match?


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Francis Mariani
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A cross join is certainly more elegant, I've never done this before, but it works quite nicely: 
SQL
SELECT 
C1.COUNTRY,
C2.CAR 
FROM CAR C1 
CROSS JOIN CAR C2
ORDER BY
C1.COUNTRY,
C2.CAR
END


Francis


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Mark1
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Awesome!! Thank you so much!


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Waz
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I think that this does the same thing.

JOIN FILE CAR AT COUNTRY TAG C1 TO ALL 
     FILE CAR AT CAR     TAG C2 AS JC
END

TABLE FILE CAR
 PRINT C1.COUNTRY
       C2.CAR
END


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bug
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It's interesting that all above method only works when hold file is FORMAT FOCUS. If I didn't specify FORMAT FOCUS none of them works. The result either only takes the first row from left table to join all rows to the right, or only first row in both tables.


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Waz
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The conditional JOIN can't use FOCUS files, they must be non FOCUS hold files.


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