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mihir.mone
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Posted - 10/20/2010 :  22:15:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have 2 tables,
COI, Company

*** COI ***
-------------------
policyno codes
-------------------
1 xxx,yyy
2 yyy

*** Company ***
---------------
Code Name
---------------
xxx SOS
yyy CMC


I want to write a query to retrieve which Companies are using the policies

-- Result --
----------------
policyno Name
----------------
1 SOS
1 CMC
2 CMC

I tried with cross join, but I must admin I am not that good with SQL.
Can anyone help me with this?

Mihir.

Sachin.Nand
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Posted - 10/21/2010 :  01:20:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
First of all it is a BAD database design.Please never store values in columns in comma seperated format.

As for your requirement write a table valued function to split the codes which will return codes which you can join with Company table on Code to get the desired result.

PBUH
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mihir.mone
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Posted - 10/21/2010 :  02:23:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks Sachin.

I found some other way to generate this report.
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Sachin.Nand
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Posted - 10/21/2010 :  02:36:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mihir.mone

Thanks Sachin.

I found some other way to generate this report.


Can you please let us you what did you use?

PBUH
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webfred
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Posted - 10/21/2010 :  06:04:28  Show Profile  Visit webfred's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Solution is given here:
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151893

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