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                                         akpaga 
                                        Constraint Violating Yak Guru 
                                         
                                        
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                                             Posted - 2015-02-26 : 11:39:10
                                            
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                                            | Hi friends,I have a table called Customer with fields as followsCustomer_ID   Customer_name  Customer_Qname1                 John          HA-12                 Carepenter     VG-33                Tim              V1ANd then i have a table called CustomerDataRecordID    Customer_Client_ID        Price1               HA-1-22r4               8.0         2                VG-3-RR67               9.0                3                  V1-fgr4                 10.0I now have added a new field Customer_ID to the CustomerData to map the Cutsomer_ID field data from Customer Table.  But the problem is I have to map them by comapring CustomerQname field and Customer_Client_ID(CustomerQname+some string).So basically i want to get the CustomerQname and compare with the Customer_Client_ID and if there is match populate my Customer_Id field of the CustomerData table.  How can i achieve this partial comaparison ..Thank You | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     djj55 
                                    Constraint Violating Yak Guru 
                                     
                                    
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                                            Posted - 2015-02-26 : 14:32:58
                                          
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                                          | could you compare Customer_Qname to LEFT(Customer_Client_ID, LEN(Customer_Qname))djj  | 
                                         
                                        
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