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Looking up a value from another table

  • September 15, 2014 at 9:46 am

    #311613

    I have 2 tables

    Table 1

    Name office

    A USA

    B Mexico

    C Canda

    Small Office

    Mexico

    Canada

    I want the output as

    Name Office Small/largerOffice

    A USA Large

    B Mexico Small

    C Canada Small

  • September 15, 2014 at 9:57 am

    #1745525

    Looks like a homework question. Hint: left join the first table to the second, and use COALESCE, ISNULL or CASE to return Small or Large in the second column.

    John

  • September 15, 2014 at 10:22 am

    #1745533

    Looks like a rather bad design too.

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