I try to search my data and sort the result by importance.
I'm using a MS Access database and my data (table1) looks like this:
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ID NAME TEXT 1 Apples Good red apples 2 Bananas Fine yellow bananas 3 Yellow apples Great yellow apples
I want to search the data and get a result where the column "NAME" is more important than "TEXT". My SQL looks like this:
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SELECT id,name,text,1 AS searchorder FROM table1 WHERE name LIKE '*yellow*' UNION SELECT id,name,text,2 AS searchorder FROM table1 WHERE text LIKE '*yellow*' ORDER BY searchorder
The output is this:
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ID NAME TEXT SEARCHORDER 3 Yellow apples Great yellow apples 1 2 Bananas Fine yellow bananas 2 3 Yellow apples Great yellow apples 2
So far so good - the order by importance works - but I do not get unique columns because of the searchorder column.
Can I fix my SQL so I get unique columns where the last line of "Yellow apples" does not appear or am I lost in space?
HI, I ran a select * from customers where state ='va', this is the result...
(29 row(s) affected) The following file has been saved successfully: C:outputcustomers.rpt 10826 bytes
I choose Query select to a file then when I tried to open the customer.rpt from the c drive I got this error message. I am not sure why this happend invalid TLV record
As the topic suggests I need the end results to show a list of shows and their dates ordered by date DESC. Tables I have are structured as follows:
SHOWS showID showTitle
SHOWACCESS showID remoteID
VIDEOS videoDate showID
SQL is as follows:
SELECT shows.showID AS showID, shows.showTitle AS showTitle, (SELECT MAX(videos.videoFilmDate) AS vidDate FROM videos WHERE videos.showID = shows.showID) FROM shows, showAccess WHERE shows.showID = showAccess.showID AND showAccess.remoteID=21 ORDER BY vidDate DESC;
I had it ordering by showTitle and it worked fine, but I need it to order by vidDate. Can anyone shed some light on where I am going wrong?
In SQL sERVER 2008, I have two fields - Depatment and Employees. I need to sort the result set by employee number ascending order, with following exception
1)when department number = 50 - the preferred order is Employee # - 573 followed by 551-572 (employee # belong to Dept 50 = 551-573)
2)When Department number = 20 – the preferred sort order is Employee # 213-220, followed by Employee # 201-213 (employee # belong to Dept 20 = 201-220)
I'm trying to find a way to sort my query like the following: SELECT * FROM tbl_Post WHERE ID = 3 OR ID = 1 OR ID = 4 OR ID = 2 ORDER BY (3,1,4,2) Now if ID is my primary key, the sort by default would be 1, 2, 3, 4. I would like to specify order so that I could return the order as 3, 1, 4, 2 if I wanted to. Is there any way to do this? Thanks,Russ
I Have a table with columns: - CustomerID - DateTransactionCompleted - AmountPaid
Illustration data as follow
GO INSERT INTO Cus_Tab_Dev_2 VALUES(30,'12-12-2004','18000.00') INSERT INTO Cus_Tab_Dev_2 VALUES(30,'12-15-2004','2000.00') INSERT INTO CUS_Tab_Dev_2 VALUES(30,'1-16-2005','15000.00') INSERT INTO CUS_TAB_DEV_2 VALUES(42,'2-2-2005','12000.00') GO
What I want is a report that tells me the Total Sales per month Per Customer in the following manner:
Customer ID Month/Year Total Per Month ----------- ----------- ---------------- 30 12-2004 20000.00 30 1-2005 15000.00 42 2-2005 12000.00
This is a homework, and I have been trying to get it to work since this morning. Any help is appreciated.
PS: If you do not feel you want/should help. Please don't call me names! I don't ask people to help me with my homework usually. But, I am running out of time on the assignment.
I have three tables:tblBook has the fields bookID, bookRangeID, bookSubjectID, bookCodetblBookRange has the fields bookRangeID, bookRangeDescriptiontblBookSubject has the fields bookSubjectID, bookSubjectDescriptionso some typical data in tblBook might be:1, 1, 1, B1HBSCI2, 1, 2, B2HBFRE13, 1, 3, B3HBGER4, 2, 1, B4PBSCI5, 2, 2, B5PBFRE6, 2, 3, B6PBGER7, 3, 1, B7CDSCI8, 3, 2, B8CDFRE9, 3, 3, B9CDGER110, 3, 3, B10CDGER211, 1, 2, B11HBFRE2tblBookRange would be:1, HardBack2, PaperBack3, CD RomtblBookSubject would be:1, Science2, French3, GermanI'd like to create a query which will return me the subjects along thetop, the book range down the side, and the bookcodes in the cells, abit like this:BookRange , Science, French, GermanHardBack , B1HBSCI, B2HBFRE1 B11HBFRE2, B3HBGERPaperBack , B4PBSCI, B5PBFRE, B6PBGERCD Rom , B7CDSCI, B8CDFRE, B9CDGER1 B10CDGER2Does that make any sense? So basically I'd like to get some kind ofdynamic SQL working which will do this kind of thing. I don't want tohard code the subjects in or the book ranges. I get the feeling thatdynamic SQL is the way forward with this and possibly using a cursor ortwo too, but it got quite nasty and convoluted when I tried variousattempts to get it working. (one of the ways I tried included workingout each result in a dynamic script, but it ran out of characters asthere were too many "subjects".)If anyone has any nice but quite dynamic solutions, I'd be delighted tohear.(and I know some of you have already told me you don't like tablesbeginnig with tbl, but I'm not hear for a lecture on namingconventions, I'm hear to learn and share ideas :o) )
I have a field called "type" in my "school" table that can have threepossibilities:ElementaryMiddleHighIn my result set, I always want Elementary to come first, Middle tocome second, and High to come third. An alpha sort gets me this:ElementaryHighMiddleSure, I could create a look-up that assigns an integer to the "type"field to get the right sort order (i.e. elementary = 0, middle = 1,high = 2) ... but is there a better way to do this with SQL syntax?Thanks,Ralph NobleJoin Bytes!
I want to sort on a field that I construct during a query....how can I solve this?Basically what i am doing is selecting mediafiles with comments in descending order. (so mediafile with most comments on top)Here's my (not working) query, because it throws the error that the mediaComments column is unknown....SELECT *FROM(select ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY mediaComments DESC) as RowNum,m.title,m.usercode,mediaComments=(select count(*) from MediaComments where mediaid=m.mediaid)FROM Media m WHERE m.usercode>0group by m.title,m.usercode) as InfoWHERE RowNum between @startRowIndex AND (@startRowIndex + @maximumRows-1)
I am trying to set sorting up on a DataGrid in ASP.NET 2.0. I have it working so that when you click on the column header, it sorts by that column, what I would like to do is set it up so that when you click the column header again it sorts on that field again, but in the opposite direction. I have it working using the following code in the stored procedure: CASE WHEN @SortColumn = 'Field1' AND @SortOrder = 'DESC' THEN Convert(sql_variant, FileName) end DESC, case when @SortColumn = 'Field1' AND @SortOrder = 'ASC' then Convert(sql_variant, FileName) end ASC, case WHEN @SortColumn = 'Field2' and @SortOrder = 'DESC' THEN CONVERT(sql_variant, Convert(varchar(8000), FileDesc)) end DESC, case when @SortColumn = 'Field2' and @SortOrder = 'ASC' then convert(sql_variant, convert(varchar(8000), FileDesc)) end ASC, case when @SortColumn = 'VersionNotes' and @SortOrder = 'DESC' then convert(sql_variant, convert(varchar(8000), VersionNotes)) end DESC, case when @SortColumn = 'VersionNotes' and @SortOrder = 'ASC' then convert(sql_variant, convert(varchar(8000), VersionNotes)) end ASC, case WHEN @SortColumn = 'FileDataID' and @SortOrder = 'DESC' THEN CONVERT(sql_variant, FileDataID) end DESC, case WHEN @SortColumn = 'FileDataID' and @SortOrder = 'ASC' THEN CONVERT(sql_variant, FileDataID) end ASC And I gotta tell you, that is ugly code, in my opinion. What I am trying to do is something like this: case when @SortColumn = 'Field1' then FileName end, case when @SortColumn = 'FileDataID' then FileDataID end, case when @SortColumn = 'Field2' then FileDesc when @SortColumn = 'VersionNotes' then VersionNotes end
case when @SortOrder = 'DESC' then DESC when @SortOrder = 'ASC' then ASC end and it's not working at all, i get an error saying: Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'case' when i put a comma after the end on line 5 i get: Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'DESC' What am I missing here? Thanks in advance for any help -Madrak
Hi Everyone,I am creating a portal and want the user to be able to select four variants from four separate drop down boxes... Such as chapter, story, etc... The user will then be able to click Find and shorten up the gridview list. The below query is what I am using for my current gridview (with custom paging). What I want to do is something like this: Pass a variable such as @Story. If no Story is chosen, then the variable would be *. If a variable is chosen, the the @Story would the StoryID. However, I don't believe SQL recognizes the * in this case. I was thinking it should, but I don't believe it does. I was hoping it would just take it and I could write, SELECT * from Stories where StoryId=@Story, or something like that... and if * was @Story, then it would just select all... or if it was 1, then just stories with a StoryId of 1.Am I totally off base here? Thanks! CREATE PROCEDURE SortAllStories@startRowIndex int,@maximumRows int,@totalRows int OUTPUTASDECLARE @first_id int, @startRow intSET @startRowIndex = (@startRowIndex - 1) * @maximumRowsIF @startRowIndex = 0SET @startRowIndex = 1SET ROWCOUNT @startRowIndexSELECT @first_id = StoriesID FROM Storie ORDER BY StoriesIdPRINT @first_idSET ROWCOUNT @maximumRowsSELECT Stories.StoryId, Chapters.ChapterName, Chapters.EnglishName, Translations.Translation,Stories.Verse, Stories.StoryFROM Chapters, Stories, TranslationsWHERE Chapters.ChapterId=Stories.ChapterId AND Translations.TranslationId = Stories.TranslationId AND Stories.StoryId >= @first_idORDER BY Stories.StoryIdSET ROWCOUNT 0SELECT @totalRows = COUNT(StoryId) FROM Stories
I have two tables .. in one (containing user data, lets call it u).The important fields are:u.userName, u.userID (uniqueidentifier) and u.workgroupID (uniqueidentifier)The second table (w) has fieldsw.delegateID (uniqueidentifier), w.workgroupID (uniqueidentifier) The SP takes the delegateID and I want to gather all the people from table u where any of the workgroupID's for that delegate match in w. one delegateID may be tied to multiple workgroupID's. I know I can create a temporary table (@wgs) and do a: INSERT INTO @wgs SELECT workgroupID from w WHERE delegateID = @delegateIDthat creates a result set with all the workgroupID's .. this may be one, none or multipleI then want to get all u.userName, u.userID FROM u WHERE u.workgroupIDThis query works on an individual workgroupID (using another temp table, @users to aggregate the results was my thought, so that's included) INSERT INTO @users SELECT u.userName,u.userID FROM tableU u LEFT JOIN tableW w ON w.workgroupID = u.workgroupID WHERE u.workgroupID = @workGroupIDI'm trying to avoid looping or using a CURSOR for the performance hit (had to kick the development server after one of the cursor attempts yesterday)Essentially what I'm after is: SELECT u.userName,u.userID FROM tableU u LEFT JOIN tableW w ON w.workgroupID = u.workgroupID WHERE u.workgroupID = (SELECT workgroupID from w WHERE delegateID = @delegateID) ... but that syntax does not work and I haven't found another work around yet.TIA!
When I run query in excel it gives result with different column sequence. The same query gives result with different column sequence when used in query analyzer or VBA Macro. E.g., Select * from ABC.
I hope I am not asking about something that has been done before, but Ihave searched and cannot find an answer. What I am trying to do is torun a query, and then perform some logic on the rowcount and thenpossibly display the result of the query. I know it can be done withADO, but I need to do it in Query Analyzer. The query looks like this:select Varfrom DBwhere SomeCriteriaif @@Rowcount = 0select 'n/a'else if @@Rowcount = 1select -- this is the part where I need to redisplay the resultfrom the above queryelse if @@Rowcount > 1-- do something elseThe reason that I want to do it without re-running the query is that Iwant to minimize impact on the DB, and the reason that I can't useanother program is that I do not have a develpment environment where Ineed to run the queries. I would select the data into a temp table, butagain, I am concerned about impacting the DB. Any suggestions would begreatly appreciated. I am really hoping there is something as simple as@@resultset, or something to that effect.
I have a column colC in a table myTable that has a value (e.g. '0X'). The position of a non-zero character in column colC refers to the ordinal position of another column in the table myTable (in the aforementioned example, colB).
To get a column name (i.e., colA or colB) from table myTable, I can join ("ON cte.pos = cn.ORDINAL_POSITION") to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS for that table catalog, schema and name. But I want to show the value of what is in that column (e.g., 'ABC'), not just the name. Hoping for:
COLUMN_NAME Value ----------- ----- colB 123 colA XYZ
I've tried dynamic SQL to no success, probably not executing the concept correctly...
I'm having a bit of a trouble explaining what I'm trying to do here.
I have 3 "source" tables and a "connecting" table that I'm going to use
tblContacts - with contactID, ContactName etc tblGroups - with GroupID, GroupName tblSubGroups - with SubGroupID, GroupID and SubGroupName (groupID is the ID for the parent Group from tblGroups)
They are related in a table called tblContactsGroupConnection - with ContactID, GroupID and SubGroupID
One contact can be related to many subgroups. What I want is a list of all contacts, with their IDs, names and what groups they are related to:
We can save query output save as CSV file directly from the Query Analyzer window. I have done it at last few year before. Now I need it.Can anyone please give the one example for the same.
Hi, Please help me with an SQL Query that fetches all the records from the three tables but a unique record for each forum and topicid with the maximum lastpostdate. I have to bind the result to a GridView.Please provide separate solutions for SqlServer2000/2005. I have three tables namely – Forums,Topics and Threads in SQL Server2000 (scripts for table creation and insertion of test data given at the end). Now, I have formulated a query as below :- SELECT ALL f.forumid,t.topicid,t.name,th.author,th.lastpostdate,(select count(threadid) from threads where topicid=t.topicid) as NoOfThreads FROM Forums f FULL JOIN Topics t ON f.forumid=t.forumid FULL JOIN Threads th ON t.topicid=th.topicid GROUP BY t.topicid,f.forumid,t.name,th.author,th.lastpostdate ORDER BY t.topicid ASC,th.lastpostdate DESC Whose result set is as below:-
forumid topicid name author lastpostdate NoOfThreads
5 17 General NULL NULL 0 On modifying the query to:- SELECT ALL f.forumid,t.topicid,t.name,th.author,th.lastpostdate,(select count(threadid) from threads where topicid=t.topicid) as NoOfThreads FROM Forums f FULL JOIN Topics t ON f.forumid=t.forumid FULL JOIN Threads th ON t.topicid=th.topicid GROUP BY t.topicid,f.forumid,t.name,th.author,th.lastpostdate HAVING th.lastpostdate=(select max(lastpostdate)from threads where topicid=t.topicid) ORDER BY t.topicid ASC,th.lastpostdate DESC I get the result set as below:-
forumid topicid name author lastpostdate NoOfThreads
5 17 General NULL NULL 0 I want all the rows from the Forums,Topics and Threads table and the row with the maximum date (the last post date of the thread) as shown above. The scripts for creating the tables and inserting test data is as follows in an already created database:- if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[FK__Topics__forumid__79A81403]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsForeignKey') = 1) ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Topics] DROP CONSTRAINT FK__Topics__forumid__79A81403 GO if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[FK__Threads__topicid__7C8480AE]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsForeignKey') = 1) ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Threads] DROP CONSTRAINT FK__Threads__topicid__7C8480AE GO if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[Forums]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1) drop table [dbo].[Forums] GO if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[Threads]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1) drop table [dbo].[Threads] GO if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[Topics]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1) drop table [dbo].[Topics] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Forums] ( [forumid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [name] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [description] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Threads] ( [threadid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [topicid] [int] NOT NULL , [subject] [varchar] (100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [replies] [int] NOT NULL , [author] [varchar] (100) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [lastpostdate] [datetime] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Topics] ( [topicid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [forumid] [int] NULL , [name] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [description] [varchar] (255) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Forums] ADD PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [forumid] ) ON [PRIMARY] GO ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Threads] ADD PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [threadid] ) ON [PRIMARY] GO ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Topics] ADD PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [topicid] ) ON [PRIMARY] GO ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Threads] ADD FOREIGN KEY ( [topicid] ) REFERENCES [dbo].[Topics] ( [topicid] ) GO ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Topics] ADD FOREIGN KEY ( [forumid] ) REFERENCES [dbo].[Forums] ( [forumid] ) GO ------------------------------------------------------ insert into forums(name,description) values('Developers','Developers Forum'); insert into forums(name,description) values('Database','Database Forum'); insert into forums(name,description) values('Desginers','Designers Forum'); insert into forums(name,description) values('Architects','Architects Forum'); insert into forums(name,description) values('General','General Forum'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'Java Overall','Topic Java Overall'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'JSP','Topic JSP'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'EJB','Topic Enterprise Java Beans'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'Swings','Topic Swings'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'AWT','Topic AWT'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'Web Services','Topic Web Services'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'JMS','Topic JMS'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'XML,HTML','XML/HTML'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(1,'Javascript','Javascript'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(2,'Oracle','Topic Oracle'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(2,'Sql Server','Sql Server'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(2,'MySQL','Topic MySQL'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(3,'CSS','Topic CSS'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(3,'FLASH/DHTLML','Topic FLASH/DHTLML'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(4,'Best Practices','Best Practices'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(4,'Longue','Longue'); insert into topics(forumid,name,description) values(5,'General','General Discussion'); insert into threads(topicid,subject,replies,author,lastpostdate) values (1,'About Java Tutorial',2,'a@b.com','1/27/2008 02:44:29 PM'); insert into threads(topicid,subject,replies,author,lastpostdate) values (1,'Java Basics',0,'x@y.com','1/27/2008 02:48:53 PM'); insert into threads(topicid,subject,replies,author,lastpostdate) values (4,'Swings',0,'p@q.com','1/27/2008 03:12:51 PM');
Hi to all,I just need to get two fields from a table and manipulate the resultsin next query of a procedure.I planned to code like what you seebelow,create procedure marks1as@ sql1 as varchar(50)@ sql1=select registerno ,subjectcode from mark;beginselect * from marksetting where registerno='@sql1.registerno' andsubjectcode='@sql1.subjectcode';endcan it be possible to get the results as shown in the code? elsepropose an alternative for this scenario.Thanks in Advance.
Hi,all, I ran the two queries and I thought it would be the same, but it's different. Can you explain to me.
Query 1: result---52 rows select s.InsuredSurname, s.email from studyUSA s join interMedical I on s.email=I.email where convert(char(10), s.enrolldate, 126)>= '2004-01-01' and convert(char(10), s.enrolldate, 126) <='2005-05-20' and (s.agentcode not like '162%') and (s.agentcode not like '17%') and s.agentcode <> '130844'
Query 2: result--14 rows
select s.InsuredSurname, s.email from tis_studyUSA s where convert(char(10), s.enrolldate, 126)>= '2004-01-01' and convert(char(10), s.enrolldate, 126) <='2005-05-20' and s.email IN (Select I.Email from tis_InterMedical I) and (agentcode not like '162%') and (agentcode not like '17%') and agentcode <> '130844'
I have 1 table "Progress"P_no b_no status build_date----------------------------------------------------------------25 1 First_slab 2006/4/525 1 second slab 2006/5/625 2 first slab 2006/1/225 2 third slab 2006/2/3o/p should be asPno,bno, status, max(build_date)sample o/p can be as below25 1 second slab 2006/5/625 2 third slab 2006/2/3Thanks in Advance.
Hello all,I tryed to simplify the problem as much as possible. I'll start with theDDL:----------------------------------CREATE TABLE #MyTable(NoID INT,Type CHAR,DateTransaction DATETIME)INSERT INTO #MyTable (NoID, Type, DateTransaction)SELECT 1 AS NoID, 'A' AS Type, '2004-01-01' AS DateTransaction UNION ALLSELECT 2, 'C', '2004-01-01' UNION ALLSELECT 3, 'B', '2004-01-01' UNION ALLSELECT 4, 'C', '2004-01-02' UNION ALLSELECT 5, 'B', '2004-01-02' UNION ALLSELECT 6, 'C', '2004-01-02' UNION ALLSELECT 7, 'A', '2004-01-03' UNION ALLSELECT 8, 'B', '2004-01-03' UNION ALLSELECT 9, 'A', '2004-01-03' UNION ALLSELECT 10, 'C', '2004-01-03' UNION ALLSELECT 11, 'B', '2004-01-03'----------------------------------What I want is all the same Type which, for a same DateTransaction, as adifferent Type inserte beetween them when data is sorted by DateTransactionand NoID. In this case I would like:Type DateTransaction------ -----------------C 2004-01-02 /* B is between two C (NoID = 5) */A 2004-01-03 /* B is between tow A (NoID = 8) */B 2004-01-03 /* A and C are between two B (NoID = 9 and10) */All of these have for the corresponding date at least one transaction with adifferent type between.In the real situation NoID is an autoincrement field, the PK. And theDateTransaction hasn't any time, just a round date.Any suggestion?Thanks for your time.Yannick
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Basically, I track complaints and each complaint can have 1 or more subjects associated with it. The structure is the complaint is referenced in a complaintsubject row and I use the persons table to find out detail of the complaintsubject (firstname, middlename, lastname) complaintsubject just holds Id's to normalize the database rather than have all details of persons table copied into every complaint (pretty basic so far).
My first question is regarding structure...since my complaint to complaintsubject relationship is 1 to many I assume the best way to associate the two is to have a FileNumber field in the complaintsubject linking back to a complaint. Is there any other design that is better suited to this type of relationship?
Second question and most important: I need a way to search by a string that appears in any part of the firstname, middlenames, lastname. I have the query for this and its working. But the problem arises when I have more than one match (i.e. 2 or more people are involved in the complaint where the match string fits both - example say we have a match string of 'an' and in complaint xyz 2 people involved are Sandy Blah and Andy Blue). Now when I do my join to pull out the complaints that involve any people with a name containing 'an' the result set returns the same complaint twice, one for Sandy Blah and the other for Andy Blue). Since I am only interested in certain complaint details and not interested in having the actual people involved returned in the result set, I would like to return only 1 row for each complaint when more than one match is found for the firstname,middlenames,lastname. I could live with having the duplicate rows and process them easily application side, but I am sending a lot of duplicate information over the wire for nothing and would like to optimize this.
I hope I have described this well enough and would greatly, greatly appreciate any help you can provide.