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RE: ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

BobAtDBS — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 11:34:00 GMT

Once the Join is done, there are no P. and A. qualifiers anymore. You simply have to alias the fieldnames to something meaningful. I suppose it's considered a 'feature' since many times the identically named fields would have identical data (but then why return both?).

RE: ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

Andy Warren — Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:06:00 GMT

I agree with Leon that this isn't so much about ADO as it is best practices. If you're aliasing your tables and cols correctly, you'll never see this. Just out of curiousity, can anyone tell me if this is a bug or a feature of ADO?Andy

RE: ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

Leon Platt — Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:35:00 GMT

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Is this article for real? You must be very new to ADO programming to just be hitting this.

That would be an incorrect assumption but thanks for the feedback anyway. The thing is, I probably never would have run across this if it wasn't for the cut and paste programming I happend to be doing at the time. Typically I would have written the sql statement by hand in which case I would have aliased the fields accordingly. Yes GRN - you are correct

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use a alias i suppose !!

Although there are several solutions to this problem the best is to alias the rating as "Article Rating" and "Book Rating", thus no ambiguity. The purpose of this Tip was not to uncover some deep dark secret of ADO but rather to give other programmers something to think about when creating sql statements that return record sets in ADO.

RE: ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

robiwon — Thu, 09 Aug 2001 15:42:00 GMT

Is this article for real? You must be very new to ADO programming to just be hitting this.

RE: ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

GRN — Wed, 08 Aug 2001 06:11:00 GMT

use a alias i suppose !!

RE: ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

mmaslanik — Wed, 08 Aug 2001 05:59:00 GMT

That's wonderful, but what is the solution?

ASP and ADO Gotcha - Duplicate Field Names in a Query

Leon Platt — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

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