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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:36:13 +0100
From: "Hilton Gowar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re inserting fields
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Hi all
I am new to the list and have a slight problem which I hope you experts can
solve. I am a pharmacist doing a project. I have three tables
1. A patient table with the patient details
2. A Pharmaceutical drug table with drug names and dosage and other data.
3. A Patient history record with the drug names and dosages.
The patient and history table are linked by a master-detail relationship. I
have set up a search on the drug table to look up the drug names etc, but
after I have found the drug how do I insert the values of the name and
dosage into the patient history table.
I hope some one can help.
Many Thanks
Hilton Gowar
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:37:40 -0500
From: "Ralph D. Wilson II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: re inserting fields
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Hilton,
Actually, you can accomplish the whole package in one SQL UPDATE
statement. Something along the lines of
UPDATE Patient_History
SET Drug_Name
{place you select query here};
Essentially it needs to have the following basic format:
UPDATE Patient_History
SET colx =
(
SELECT Drugs.Name AS Drug_Name
FROM Drugs
WHERE Drugs.DrugID=Patient_History.DrugID
)
On the other hand, you can accomplish the same thing with a join to
the Drug table when you need it and you don't consume the extra space
in the database for all those duplicated drug names.
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Futher explaination
Thanks for the reply, I will try that, but I am looking for something
similar to the mastapp example in delphi where the part number is selected
from a search dialog and selected and then inserted into a orders grid. I
have studied the code for this example but as the other bits of code have no
bearing on what I am trying to accomplish it is a bit confusing.
Hope this explains my problem a bit better.
Many Thanks
Hilton Gowar
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