• Newbi (6/28/2016)


    It will b better of with looking up UNION and UNION ALL first.

    I really am not aware of importance of order in group by. Those are not intentionally order that way.

    Anyway Thank you.

    Itemcode and ItemName are switched in the unioned queries.

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