Re: outer join in ms query

MS Query is crippled.  If you want to do much from Excel, you will need to 
write code.  But it's not difficult.  ADO is a good choice for this.

"gad renert via DBMonster.com" <forum@nospam.DBMonster.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello, I am a novice with SQL, I have 2 tables
>  (transfer)
> bar_code | quant | date
> 723445...|   2   |01/03/2005
>
> (imports)
>
> bar_code | serial_no | supplier
>
>
> I want to add to the first table (transfer)
> next to each barcode the suppliers name from the (imports) table.
>
> ms query doesn't allow me to do outer joins.
>
> I tried:
> SELECT transfer.bar_code, transfer.quant, imports.supplier
> FROM transfer left join imports on transfer.bar_code=imports.bar_cod
> GROUP BY transfer.bar_code
>
> and it didn't work popperly, the (transfer) table is modified.
> what i want to do is very similar to the VLOOKUP function in EXCELL
>
> Hope that someone can help me.
>
> Gadi
>
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