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Posted - 2004-06-07 : 07:29:09

Johnny writes "I have four tables:

Customer: Customer_Name, City_ID, Credit_Limit
City: City_ID, City, Sales_District
District: Sales_District, Sales_Region
Region: Sales_Region

I need to create a query to show all the customer names grouped by sales_region, then sales_district, ordered by credit limit. I have the following query but it is generating a syntax error:

SELECT C.CUSTOMER_NAME
FROM CUSTOMER C INNER JOIN CITY C1 ON C.CITY_ID=C1.CITY_ID
INNER JOIN DISTRICT D ON D.SALES_DISTRICT=C1.SALES_DISTRICT
INNER JOIN REGION R ON R.SALES_REGION=D.SALES_REGION
ORDER BY R.SALES_REGION, D.SALES_DISTRICT, C.CREDIT_LIMIT;

I don't think I can use the GROUP BY since it requires an aggregate function which I am not using.

Thank you for any help you might be able to provide."

nr
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Posted - 2004-06-07 : 08:01:57

SELECT R.SALES_REGION, D.SALES_DISTRICT, C.CUSTOMER_NAME
FROM CUSTOMER C INNER JOIN CITY C1 ON C.CITY_ID=C1.CITY_ID
INNER JOIN DISTRICT D ON D.SALES_DISTRICT=C1.SALES_DISTRICT
INNER JOIN REGION R ON R.SALES_REGION=D.SALES_REGION
ORDER BY R.SALES_REGION, D.SALES_DISTRICT, C.CREDIT_LIMIT

Can't see why it gives error - what is the error?

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RickD
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Posted - 2004-06-07 : 08:02:09

You need to put all the fields in your order by within the field list in your select statement for a start...

SELECT R.SALES_REGION, D.SALES_DISTRICT, C.CREDIT_LIMIT, C.CUSTOMER_NAME
FROM CUSTOMER C INNER JOIN CITY C1 ON C.CITY_ID=C1.CITY_ID
INNER JOIN DISTRICT D ON D.SALES_DISTRICT=C1.SALES_DISTRICT
INNER JOIN REGION R ON R.SALES_REGION=D.SALES_REGION
ORDER BY R.SALES_REGION, D.SALES_DISTRICT, C.CREDIT_LIMIT

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