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AskSQLTeam
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 Posted - 2005-12-07 : 08:06:30
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| David writes "I have a quick problem that would be nice to get a bit of help with.I want to join empolyees on employee bank accounts but only want the first record for each employee even though it is a 1-M relationship.i.e., starting with:EMP_ID(PK), NAMEACCT_ID(PK), EMP_ID resulting in:EmpID(PK), Name, Acct_ID (just the first acct_id, no matter how many there are)It is a trival enough sounding query but SQL doesn't like to throw away perfectly good data." |
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madhivanan
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druer
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Posted - 2005-12-07 : 09:26:33
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| select emp.name, emp.address, act.idfrom employee emp, (select top 1 id from accounts where accounts.emp_id = emp.emp_id) act |
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Joins that Filter for only the first entry in a one-to-many