Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread David Johnston
Jason Long-2 wrote > Does the syntax you showed me have performance benefits vs joining a > bunch of views together? As a general rule CTE/WITH is going to be worse performing than the equivalent view definition - depending on the view is actually used in the query of course. They both have their

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread Jason Long
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 16:22 -0700, David Johnston wrote: > Jason Long-2 wrote > >> Jason Long-2 wrote > > > > > > There is a unique constraint on the real price table. I hadn't thought > > of how I will enforce the constraint across two tables. > > size_id and area_id will have to be unique

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread David Johnston
Jason Long-2 wrote >> Jason Long-2 wrote > > > There is a unique constraint on the real price table. I hadn't thought > of how I will enforce the constraint across two tables. > size_id and area_id will have to be unique across both > t_price_base_table and t_price_original_with_area_id. I will

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread Jason Long
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 15:37 -0700, David Johnston wrote: > Jason Long-2 wrote > > David, > > > > Thank you very much for your response. > > Below is a script that will reproduce the problem with comments > > included. > > > > > > > > /* > > This is the new query that is not working correc

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread David Johnston
Jason Long-2 wrote > David, > > Thank you very much for your response. > Below is a script that will reproduce the problem with comments > included. > > > > /* > This is the new query that is not working correctly. > I am trying to left join the base table by its id and area_id. > I nee

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread Jason Long
David, Thank you very much for your response. Below is a script that will reproduce the problem with comments included. /***/ --drop table t_item; --drop table t_price_base_table; --drop table t_price_original_with_area_id; --this table repres

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with left join when moving a column to another table

2013-06-20 Thread David Johnston
Jason Long-2 wrote > I am having some problems moving a column to another table and fixing > some views that rely on it. I want to move the area_id column from > t_offerprice_pipe to t_offerprice and then left join the results. > > When I have only one table I get the correct results. area_id is