Re: forms question
Date: 1997/12/11
Message-ID: <881859859.1137573889_at_dejanews.com>#1/1
In article <66mah2$aok$1_at_news.gov.on.ca>,
warren_at_admin.flarc.edu.on.ca wrote:
> In the master block of my form I call a view which contains various
> records with matching id numbers. These records are not actually
> duplicate records as someof the fields (not specifically called by the
> form) do not match. I do not want both records to come up.
> When run the statement select min(rowid),employee_id
> from view group by employee_id
> in sql I get the correct result. One of every record, but when I try
> to run this in forms at the block level it gives me only one record...
> where (rowid,employee_id) in (select min(rowid),employee_id
> from view....etc
> Does anyone have any ideas to get on of these records up only, as well
> as all the single records?
I think the easiest way is to create another view that returns unique values: create view myview2 as Select col1,col2,col3... from myview1 group by col1,col2,col3...;
Then use the view as the base-table for your master block.
HTH,
Steve Cosner
http://members.aol.com/stevec5088 -- Downloadable Forms utility
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