garth i could not get a result to work the way you said; we would need something equivilent to this to test with:
With TableA (,col)
AS
(SELECT 1,'1308064*8' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, '1522323*11'
),
TableB (,col)
AS
(SELECT 1,'Some Stuff' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'Other Stuff'
)
Select A.col ,*
from tableA A
left join tableB B
on a. = b.
Lowell
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