Ok, I need a little help and here's the scenario:
I have an x-ref table that looks like this:
DeptNum, Description, Value
1??, Dept 1, 99930
2??, Dept 2, 92382
3??, Dept 3, 83728
?4?, Dept 4, 27377
Next, I have a data table with thousands of employees with department
numbers I want to scan through. If the employee's dept # is 101, then in the
fastest way possible, I want to compare 101 to the DeptNum in the x-ref
table and return the value 99930. If the employee's dept # is 141, then the
search should return both 99930 and 27377 and I'll perform some logic to
determine which value is most important.
I know I can do SELECT queries using the LIKE statement such as Select *
from x-ref where x-ref.DeptNum LIKE "1%", but in this case, I know the
explicit value and I need to compare it to the masked values in the x-ref
table. So I really need to the reverse which would be Select * from x-ref
where "1%" LIKE x-ref.DeptNum (which doesn' t work, I know.). FYI, The
DeptNum field can be up to 20 characters long and I am guessing the masked
values could be as well.
Unfortunately, I think I'm stuck mentally on doing this with a SQL Query and
I'm not able to think outside of this box right now, so any suggestions will
help. Hell, at this point, I'll take snarky comments, but only if they
contain clues to how I need to proceed. LOL
Thanks in advance
Paul H. Tarver
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