charu.verma (12/11/2009)
Thanks-but this will not workThe cloumns in Tbl3 have to be deleted tnum of tbl2,formatted tnum returned from fucntion & sid of tbl1 & not oid of tbl2
The code I provided does exactly what you wanted, according to the instructions Step1, Step2 and Step3 in your first post. If you know for certain what you want to do, then please say so in a clear and unequivocal manner.
Given the data sets which I provided for you, what should your output be?
If the data I provided for you is insufficient, please augment it until it is suitable for testing, using the same code - INSERT INTO .... SELECT.
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