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 Incorrect Joining Maybe???

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cobby1812
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16 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-11 : 06:04:27
Hi there,

I have a Table called NO2. In there I have a field called Date
Date is a nchar(6) and looks thus 12160 - in simple terms it is broken down as 12 (being the year) and 160 (being the days from 1st Jan till today)

I created another table called Dates, in there I have nchar(6) field to match the files one and a smalldatetime field showing the date in 103 format.

When I try and link the tow together nothing returns.

i.e
SELECT * FROM NO2
LEFT OUTER JOIN DATES
ON NO2.DATE = DATES.DATESTRING
I have tried Inner and Outer etc. What am I doing wrong.

webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

8781 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-11 : 06:34:16
Don't know.
Have a look at the data, maybe in one table the column has leading space and the other one has trailing space?


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