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  1. Re: Select problem

    Karl F. Larsen <k5di@zianet.com> — 2000-08-14T17:23:12Z

    	You are exactly right Joe. Thanks and I found another way which
    sometimes works. It goes
    
    	select data.* , user
    	from......
    
    when you want all from table "data" and user from another. 
    
    
    On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Joe LaLumiere wrote:
    
    > >but if I want to get the column armycall and use:
    > >
    > >	select user, armycall
    > >	from data, biglist
    > >	where user.armycall = biglist.armycall
    > >
    > >I get an error that armycall is ambiguous.
    > >
    > >	Does anyone know how to correct this?
    > 
    > Since you have two tables which have the same field name you need to specify which table to grab the field from.  The corrected select statement would be:
    > 
    > 	select user, user.armycall
    > 	from data, biglist
    > 	where user.armycall = biglist.armycall
    > 
    > OR
    > 
    > 	select user, biglist.armycall
    > 	from data, biglist
    > 	where user.armycall = biglist.armycall
    > 
    > Either of these two will work.  The above applies to any two fields which have the same name in two or more tables.
    > 
    > Joe LaLumiere
    > 
    > >
    > >Yours Truly,
    > >
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    Yours Truly,
    
      	 - Karl F. Larsen, k5di@arrl.net  (505) 524-3303  -