RE: Easy (I hope) join question

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August 2, 2013 at 11:03 pm

taigovinda (8/2/2013)
Good point... For the sample data that is definitely smarter. In my actual data I have about 6 fields that are like 'address' in that there could be multiple distinct values and I only want to pick one - I suppose I could put min() for each one but that would probably be more expensive, right?

Careful... if you put MIN on each column, you could end up having Detroit in California. 😉

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________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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