MS SQL equivalent of MS Access lookup fields

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January 8th, 2004, 02:51 PM

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MS SQL equivalent of MS Access lookup fields

MS SQL equivalent of MS Access lookup fields

I would be most grateful if someone could help me. I wish to upgrade my Access db to MS SQL but I am unable to replicate the lookup fields I use in Access in SQL.

In Access I have a Results table with a Column for HomeTeam and Away Team. These two columns use a basic lookup to select the team name as listed in the Team table.

i.e. SELECT [Team].[Team] FROM Team ORDER BY [Team].[Team];

I am sure this must really straight forward to accomplish in SQL but I am really struggling with it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

January 9th, 2004, 02:21 AM

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in sql server, "lookup" tables are just tables

(they are just tables in access too)

they just usually happen to have only two fields, a code and a description

Code:

select A.name as awayteamname
     , R.awayscore
     , H.name as hometeamname
     , R.homescore     
  from results R 
inner
  join teams A
    on R.awayteamid = A.teamid
inner
  join teams H
    on R.hometeamid = H.teamid

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January 9th, 2004, 03:05 PM

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Thanks r937.

Unfortunately I don't think I explained myself very well. What I am actually hoping to do is populate a listbox with this data - like I have in access - but in a column within an SQL table.

Do you know if this is possible?

January 9th, 2004, 03:30 PM

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well, sorta, if i understand you, you would create the teams table as a table in sql server, but i don't think sql server comes with listboxes -- it is a database engine, full stop

whereas access is a combination of front end and database engine

listboxes are front end thingies

you *could* set up access as your front end and use sql server as the database engine

but i'm speculating wildly here, and you'll ahve to be more specific to get me to go on...

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