HELP with a Select/Union statement

I have 3 tables One table is the order Table, Bill to table and ship to table
I have to Views created as followed

This query uses the Ship to table to pull the ship to information to the shipping system.
SELECT Cust_address.NAME, Cust_address.ADDR_1, Cust_address.ADDR_2, Cust_address.ADDR_3, Cust_address.CITY, Cust_address.STATE, Cust_address.ZIPCODE, Cust_address.COUNTRY, Cust_address.SHIP_VIA, customer_order.ID
FROM Cust_address INNER JOIN customer_order ON (Cust_address.CUSTOMER_ID = customer_order.CUSTOMER_ID) AND (Cust_address.ADDR_NO = customer_order.SHIP_TO_ADDR_NO);

This query uss the Bill to as the ship to inforamtion
SELECT CUSTOMER.ID, CUSTOMER.SHIPTO_ID, CUSTOMER.NAME, CUSTOMER.ADDR_1, CUSTOMER.ADDR_2, CUSTOMER.ADDR_3, CUSTOMER.CITY, CUSTOMER.STATE, CUSTOMER.ZIPCODE, CUSTOMER.COUNTRY, CUSTOMER.SHIP_VIA, customer_order.ID, customer_order.SHIP_TO_ADDR_NO
FROM CUSTOMER INNER JOIN customer_order ON CUSTOMER.ID = customer_order.CUSTOMER_ID;

I need this infroamtion in one table which I have done in the UNION statement as followed:
SELECT Cust_address.NAME, Cust_address.ADDR_1, Cust_address.ADDR_2, Cust_address.ADDR_3, Cust_address.CITY, Cust_address.STATE, Cust_address.ZIPCODE, Cust_address.COUNTRY, Cust_address.SHIP_VIA, customer_order.ID
FROM Cust_address INNER JOIN customer_order ON (Cust_address.CUSTOMER_ID = customer_order.CUSTOMER_ID) AND (Cust_address.ADDR_NO = customer_order.SHIP_TO_ADDR_NO)
UNION ALL
SELECT CUSTOMER.NAME, CUSTOMER.ADDR_1, CUSTOMER.ADDR_2, CUSTOMER.ADDR_3, CUSTOMER.CITY, CUSTOMER.STATE, CUSTOMER.ZIPCODE, CUSTOMER.COUNTRY, CUSTOMER.SHIP_VIA, customer_order.ID
FROM CUSTOMER INNER JOIN customer_order ON CUSTOMER.ID=customer_order.CUSTOMER_ID;

Here is the problem when I pull information out of the ship to table I get 2 results as followed My key field to pull this information is the Last field Custoemr ID this custoemr ID exist in both tables but contains different information I want to ONLY pull in the info that I need in this case it would be the first line that is the Correct shipping information.

NAME ADDR_1 ADDR_2 ADDR_3 CITY STATE ZIPCODE COUNTRY SHIP_VIA ID
DIEBOLD INC (4076A) ATTN: RANCE AARON 343 MANOR DR PACIFICA CA 94044 18932
DIEBOLD, INC OH UPS #88X08X 18932

MY POINT: Is there a way to select a over all DISTINCT order ID.

Thank you for any help hope this make sense!...I want to ONLY pull in the info that I need in this case it would be the first line that is the Correct shipping information.Define what you mean by "first line". The order of data in a database has no meaning. Do you have a date field or some other value you can sort on to determine which shipping information is "first"?|||Sorry
In the Union query the first select statement will Always be the correct shipping information when the ORDER form has one(Shipping info) if it does not have a Shipping address printed on the form then the second select statement will pull from the bill table which will only have one record per the order number.

Example Order form:
Bill-to Ship to information
Bill to Compnay Ship to company
Bill to address Ship to address
Bill to city Ship to City
Bill to State Ship to state
Etc Etc

When this order occurs then there is one record in the bill to table with that info and 1 record in the Ship to table with the shipping info This is where the problme occurs when I do the UNION it looks in the Shipping table first and pulls the shipping info and then the other statement in the UNION pulls the BILL to info which give me 2 records in the Query so what happends in this case I pull the info using ODBC to my shipping system and it says it found 2 records but I only what the First select statement to show. Another problem is when the ship to is not fill out I need to use the second part of the UNION select statement in order ot pull the bill to info for the shipping info but this works correctly due to only 1 order number exists in the bill to tableEX:

Example Order form:
Bill-to Ship to information
Bill to Compnay SAME
Bill to address
Bill to city
Bill to State
Etc
When this occurs then I need to use the Bill to table for the shipping info.

Hopfully this clears things up.|||So this query:SELECT Cust_address.NAME,
Cust_address.ADDR_1,
Cust_address.ADDR_2,
Cust_address.ADDR_3,
Cust_address.CITY,
Cust_address.STATE,
Cust_address.ZIPCODE,
Cust_address.COUNTRY,
Cust_address.SHIP_VIA,
customer_order.ID
FROM Cust_address
INNER JOIN customer_order
ON Cust_address.CUSTOMER_ID = customer_order.CUSTOMER_ID
AND Cust_address.ADDR_NO = customer_order.SHIP_TO_ADDR_NO...contains all the orders that you need, but in some cases the address information is missing and you want to pull address information from the CUSTOMER table to fill it in?|||Yes Sir that is correct!

Help with a Query

What I need to do is select a persons name and total up there hours worked times their bill rate. The trick is that they can have multiple bill rates based on the effective date of that bill rate. Their bill rate( there can be multiple bill rates per person), Effective date (There is one effective date per bill rate per person), Total hours hours worked, where work is broken up to the day the work was done. So I need to multiply the bill rates on the day the work was performed and the total them up.

Example--John works 200 hours in june at $100 and hour, then we change his bill rate to $150 on July first. He then works 100 hours in July. His total bill would be $35,000.

Here is basically how the tables are configured. Any Suggestions?

Tables

--Resources--
Columns
Name, ResourceID(This field is the FK relation ship to the other two tables.)

--ResourceRate--
Columns
ResourceID,HourlyBillRate,EffectiveDate(The date the rate takes affect.)

--Time--
Columns
ResourceID,TimeDate(The day the work was performed),RegularHours(The number of hours worked on that day)

Below is mty attempt.

select B.EffectiveDate,CAST(A.name as char(20))Name, sum(C.RegularHours) As Total_Regular_Hours, B.HourlyBillRate
from Resources A INNER JOIN ResourceRate B ON A.ResourceID = B.ResourceID
INNER JOIN Time C ON C.ResourceID = A.ResourceID
Group by A.name, B.HourlyBillRate,B.EffectiveDate,C.TimeDate
order by A.nameThat's why I prefer a 2-field representation of a period. And in your case for as long as the rate is current, DateEnd would stay NULL, once the rate changes, - DateEnd acquires the last day for the old rate, and a new record with DateEnd=NULL gets created. By doing so you can sum HourlyBillRate X RegularHours by NAME and EffectiveDate WHERE TimeDate between EffectiveDate and DateEnd.

Help with a query

I have a table with 4 relevant fields (blank lines added for clarity).
State, City, Name, Primary_Contact
IL, Springfield, Bill, n
IL, Springfield, Frank, n
IL, Springfield, Larry, n

IL, Bloomington, Steve, n
IL, Bloomington, Chris, y

IL, Chicago, Betty, n
IL, Chicago, Linda, n
IL, Chicago, Sue, n

I need a query to return the state and cities that don't have a
Primary_Contact='y'
So the results would be:
IL, Springfield
IL, Chicago

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SELECT State, City
FROM table_name
WHERE Primary_Contact<>'y'
GROUP BY State, City

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foneguy2 wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

I have a table with 4 relevant fields (blank lines added for clarity).
State, City, Name, Primary_Contact
IL, Springfield, Bill, n
IL, Springfield, Frank, n
IL, Springfield, Larry, n
>
IL, Bloomington, Steve, n
IL, Bloomington, Chris, y
>
IL, Chicago, Betty, n
IL, Chicago, Linda, n
IL, Chicago, Sue, n
>
I need a query to return the state and cities that don't have a
Primary_Contact='y'
So the results would be:
IL, Springfield
IL, Chicago
>
That's it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>

|||On 25 Oct 2006 15:58:36 -0700, foneguy2 wrote:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

>I have a table with 4 relevant fields (blank lines added for clarity).
>State, City, Name, Primary_Contact
>IL, Springfield, Bill, n
>IL, Springfield, Frank, n
>IL, Springfield, Larry, n
>
>IL, Bloomington, Steve, n
>IL, Bloomington, Chris, y
>
>IL, Chicago, Betty, n
>IL, Chicago, Linda, n
>IL, Chicago, Sue, n
>
>I need a query to return the state and cities that don't have a
>Primary_Contact='y'
>So the results would be:
>IL, Springfield
>IL, Chicago
>
>That's it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi foneguy2,

The solution posted by MGFoster won't work, unfortunately. It will give
you all State/City combo's that have at least one Primary_Contact='n'.

Here's the "straightforward" solution:

SELECT DISTINCT a.State, a.City
FROM YourTable AS a
WHERE NOT EXISTS
(SELECT *
FROM YourTable AS b
WHERE b.State = a.State
AND b.City = a.City
AND b.Primary_Contact = 'n');

And here's a more clever (but harder to graps) solution that might run a
bit faster:

SELECT State, City
FROM YourTable
GROUP BY State, City
HAVING MIN(Primary_Contact) = 'n';

(Untested - see www.aspfaq.com/5006 if you prefer a tested reply).

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Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP|||>I have a table with 4 relevant fields [sic] .. <<

Suggestions:
1) learn why a column is nothing like a field
2) Use a numeric code instead of a fake Boolean flag. That way the
MIN() will give you a contact in every location. I would bet you spend
time updating the flags.

CREATE TABLE Contacts
(state_code CHAR(2) NOT NULL,
city_name CHAR(25) NOT NULL,
contact_name CHAR(25) NOT NULL,
contact_priority INTEGER NOT NULL
CHECK (contact_priority 0),
PRIMARY KEY (state_code, city_name, contact_name, contact_priority));

This will show one contact in every city

CREATE VIEW PrimaryContacts (state_code, city_name, contact_name)
AS
SELECT C1.state_code, C1.city_name, C1.contact_name
FROM Contacts AS C1
WHERE contact_priority
= (SELECT MIN (C2.contact_priority)
FROM Contacts AS C2
WHERE C1.state_code = C2.state_code
AND C1.city_name = C2.city_name);