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rockstar283
Yak Posting Veteran

96 Posts

Posted - 2011-09-15 : 20:32:40
I am building a report with parameters and I receiving 'level,fab,tier,wave' from the report..so I need to form a dynamic query as follows:

SELECT A.X FROM

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR='level') AS A

JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR='fab') AS B

ON

A.X=B.X

JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR='tier') AS C

ON

B.X=C.X

JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERECHAR='wave' ) AS D

ON

C.X=D.X

The query will increase depending on the no. of sub-parameters I get from the report..can somebody please help me in forming this query..thanks in advance

rockstar283
Yak Posting Veteran

96 Posts

Posted - 2011-09-15 : 22:37:31
I have reached till here..



SELECT C.X FROM

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR='level') AS A1 JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'fab') AS A84 JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'die') AS A147 JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'fert') AS A211 JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'pert') AS C

Can somebody pls help to insert the JOIN condition in this string..
The end result should be


SELECT C.X FROM

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR='level') AS A1 JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'fab') AS A84

ON A1.X=A84.X

JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'die') AS A147

ON A84.X=A147.X

JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'fert') AS A211

ON A147.X=A211.X

JOIN

(SELECT X FROM DIM WHERE CHAR= 'pert') AS C

ON A211.X=C.X
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2011-09-16 : 12:21:20
can you tell purpose of all these joins? whats end result you're looking at?

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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2011-09-16 : 12:38:36
is this even sql server? your joins have no join predicate

You: "I have a form where the user has the ability to pick many Predicates, and based on that I need to create a report on some query with thos predicates. How can I easily do this...here is my work so far..."

You can bennies for showing us your "work"

However, seems like all you want to do is have a dynamic WHERE Clause

Yes?

Brett

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