• pietlinden - Thursday, May 11, 2017 4:39 PM

    If the two result sets have a 1:1 relationship, use a JOIN.  If the two sets do not overlap, use UNION.

    Thank you pitelinden. It is not a 1:1 relationship, so I chose to use a UNION.

    After trying to use a UNION I quickly discovered that since they both did not have the same columns I needed to add static columns to 1st SELECT. I was testing it as I was going and it was working great until I got to 2 fields, ''NULL'' AS "HPMASN-END-DATE" which is a date column and the other ''null'' AS "HPMASN-HRS-PER-DAY-DEC" which is a number column. For ''NULL'' AS "HPMASN-END-DATE" I receive the error message "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string." For ''null'' AS "HPMASN-HRS-PER-DAY-DEC" I receive the error message "Error converting data type varchar to numeric.". I have tried multiple changes, but cannot correct the errors. Any ideas?

    The last problem I have is that rather than setting the columns to null, it is actually inserting a string of 'null'. Does anyone know how I correct that as well?

    Below is the entire SQL query.
    SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY([SKYWARD1],
    'SELECT "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAPRO-ACTIVE", "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."nalphakey", "NAME_employee"."LAST-NAME", "NAME_employee"."FIRST-NAME", "NAME_employee"."MIDDLE-NAME", "NAME_DUSER"."DUSER-ID", "NAME_employee"."INTERNET-ADDRESS", "NAME_employee"."SECOND-PHONE", "ADDRESS"."STREET-NUMBER", "ADDRESS"."STREET-NAME", "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE", "HAAETY_EMP_TYPES"."HAAETY-SDESC", "HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-SDESC", "NAME_employee"."BIRTHDATE", "NAME_employee"."FEDERAL-ID-NO", "ZIP"."ZIP-CITY", "ZIP"."ZIP-STATE", "ZIP"."ZIP-CODE", "HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE", "NAME_employee"."ALTERNATE-ID", ''null'' AS "HPMPLN-DESC", ''NULL'' AS "HPMASN-END-DATE", ''null'' AS "SUPERVISOR-LAST-NAME", ''null'' AS "SUPERVISOR-FIRST-NAME", ''null'' AS "HAADSC-DESC-ASN", ''null'' AS "HAADSC-DESC", ''null'' AS "SUPERVISOR-NALPHAKEY", ''null'' AS "FFAMAM-EDITED-ACCT", ''null'' AS "HPMASN-HRS-PER-DAY-DEC"

    FROM "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAAPRO-PROFILE" "HAAPRO_PROFILE", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."NAME-DUSER" "NAME_DUSER", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."NAME" "NAME_employee", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAABLD-BLD-CODES" "HAABLD_BLD_CODES", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPES" "HAAETY_EMP_TYPES", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."ADDRESS" "ADDRESS", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."ZIP" "ZIP"

    WHERE ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."NAME-ID"="NAME_DUSER"."NAME-ID") AND ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."NAME-ID"="NAME_employee"."NAME-ID") AND ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE"="HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE") AND ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE"="HAAETY_EMP_TYPES"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE") AND ("NAME_employee"."ADDRESS-ID"="ADDRESS"."ADDRESS-ID") AND ("ADDRESS"."ZIP-CODE"="ZIP"."ZIP-CODE") AND "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAPRO-ACTIVE"=1 AND ((("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE"=''SUB'' OR "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE"=''INSUB'')) OR (("HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE"=''98SCA'' OR "HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE"=''97SCU'' OR "HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE"=''95STR'')))')

    UNION

    SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY([SKYWARD1],
    'SELECT "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAPRO-ACTIVE", "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."nalphakey", "NAME_employee"."LAST-NAME", "NAME_employee"."FIRST-NAME", "NAME_employee"."MIDDLE-NAME", "NAME_DUSER"."DUSER-ID", "NAME_employee"."INTERNET-ADDRESS", "NAME_employee"."SECOND-PHONE", "ADDRESS"."STREET-NUMBER", "ADDRESS"."STREET-NAME", "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE", "HAAETY_EMP_TYPES"."HAAETY-SDESC", "HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-SDESC", "NAME_employee"."BIRTHDATE", "NAME_employee"."FEDERAL-ID-NO", "ZIP"."ZIP-CITY", "ZIP"."ZIP-STATE", "ZIP"."ZIP-CODE", "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE", "NAME_employee"."ALTERNATE-ID", "HPMPLN_PLAN"."HPMPLN-DESC", "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMASN-END-DATE", "NAME_supervisor"."LAST-NAME" AS "SUPERVISOR-LAST-NAME", "NAME_supervisor"."FIRST-NAME" AS "SUPERVISOR-FIRST-NAME", "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAADSC-DESC-ASN", "HAADSC_DESCS"."HAADSC-DESC", "NAME_supervisor"."NALPHAKEY" AS "SUPERVISOR-NALPHAKEY", "FFAMAM_ACCT_MST"."FFAMAM-EDITED-ACCT", "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMASN-HRS-PER-DAY-DEC"

    FROM "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAAPRO-PROFILE" "HAAPRO_PROFILE", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."NAME-DUSER" "NAME_DUSER", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."NAME" "NAME_employee", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAABLD-BLD-CODES" "HAABLD_BLD_CODES", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPES" "HAAETY_EMP_TYPES", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HPMASN-ASSIGNMENTS" "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."ADDRESS" "ADDRESS", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."ZIP" "ZIP", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAADSC-DESCS" "HAADSC_DESCS", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HPMPLN-PLAN" "HPMPLN_PLAN", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."NAME" "NAME_supervisor", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."HAAACC-ACCT-DIST" "HAAACC_ACCT_DIST", "SKYWARD"."PUB"."FFAMAM-ACCT-MST" "FFAMAM_ACCT_MST"

    WHERE ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."NAME-ID"="NAME_DUSER"."NAME-ID") AND ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."NAME-ID"="NAME_employee"."NAME-ID") AND ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE"="HAABLD_BLD_CODES"."HAABLD-BLD-CODE") AND ("HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE"="HAAETY_EMP_TYPES"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE") AND ("NAME_employee"."NAME-ID"="HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."NAME-ID") AND ("NAME_employee"."ADDRESS-ID"="ADDRESS"."ADDRESS-ID") AND ("ADDRESS"."ZIP-CODE"="ZIP"."ZIP-CODE") AND ("HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAADSC-ID-DPT"="HAADSC_DESCS"."HAADSC-ID" (+)) AND ("HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMPLN-ID"="HPMPLN_PLAN"."HPMPLN-ID") AND ("HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMASN-SUPER-ID"="NAME_supervisor"."NAME-ID") AND ("HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMASN-ID"="HAAACC_ACCT_DIST"."HAAACC-SRC-ID") AND ("HAAACC_ACCT_DIST"."FFAMAM-ACCT-ID"="FFAMAM_ACCT_MST"."FFAMAM-ACCT-ID") AND ("HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMASN-END-DATE">=(SYSDATE-(60)) AND "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HPMASN-END-DATE"<={d ''9999-12-31''}) AND "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAETY-EMP-TYPE-CODE"<>''CASEM'' AND "HAAPRO_PROFILE"."HAAPRO-ACTIVE"=1 AND NOT ("HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAADSC-DESC-ASN"=''Leadership Stipend'' OR "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAADSC-DESC-ASN"=''Professional Development'' OR "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAADSC-DESC-ASN"=''Special Stipend'' OR "HPMASN_ASSIGNMENTS"."HAADSC-DESC-ASN"=''Westview Stipend'') AND ("HPMPLN_PLAN"."HPMPLN-DESC"=''2015-2016 Plan'' OR "HPMPLN_PLAN"."HPMPLN-DESC"=''2016-2017 Plan'') AND "HAAACC_ACCT_DIST"."HAAACC-SRC-IND"=''PMASN''')