Re: How to do this in Mckoi

Chas Douglass <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mckoi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
M. A. Sridhar wrote:
> --- Chas Douglass <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [Snip]
> 
>>Thanks, it does.
>>
>>Maybe I should just make a VIEW of the "Patient LEFT JOIN (SELECT ..." 
>>and then I could pick out the number of meds for a patient quite easily.
>>
>>Isn't it true that you can only have one LEFT JOIN per query?  That 
>>would be another reason to use the VIEW.
>>
>>Chas Douglass
>>
> 
> You can certainly create a view. But it is not true that you can have only
> one left join. In our product, we routinely generate (single) SQL queries
> against Mckoi with lots of left joins. Perhaps you are thinking of a similar
> limitation that Oracle used to have.
> 

I'm not sure where I read that -- and I don't recall it being mentioned 
as an Oracle only restriction.  But that only speaks to what I recall, 
not how anything actually works.

So thank you for the information and heads up.

Some of this is starting to make sense.

Chas Douglass


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