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Originally Posted by rseigel
... and I learned something new.
hopefully, this new thing you learned was how to write explicit JOIN syntax rather than the deprecated comma list style with the join condition in the WHERE clause
but i'm curious why you bothered to also post this question on dbforums, ~after~ i posted my solution here
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hopefully, this new thing you learned was how to write explicit JOIN syntax rather than the deprecated comma list style with the join condition in the WHERE clause
but i'm curious why you bothered to also post this question on dbforums, ~after~ i posted my solution
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I actually posted them both at the same time - give or take.
if i notice it sooner (which i did not, this time), i will usually post a link from one forum into the other, even if no replies have been made yet
i hate seeing people waste their time, as actually happened in this case, re-creating a solution that's already been posted, or worse, barking up the wrong tree because further clarification was elicited in the other forum that they aren't aware of
the only circumstance under which i find cross-posting acceptable is when a goodly amount of time has elapsed on one forum with no replies, then it's okay to post the same question into a different forum