All,
Using Postgres 8.0 on Windows Server 2003 - 16GB Ram, 3Ghz X 2 Xeons
Accessing through JDBC / JSP
I have 3 shipment tables.
Table A - Records arrived Shipments.
Table B - Records Materials (maybe more than one per shipment) in the
shipment.
Table C - Records Issuances of material (maybe more than one Issuance
per line item of material) in Table B.
eg.
Table A (PK = Shipment ID)
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shipment ID Recd Date
1 2005-XX-XX
10 2005-XX-XX
Table B (PK = Material ID, FK = Shipment ID, references Table A
(shipment ID))
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shipment ID Material ID Material Bond Date
10 1 2005-XX-XX
10 2 2005-XX-XX
Table C (PK = Issue ID, FK = Material ID, references Table B (Material
ID))
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Material ID Issue ID Issue Date
1 1 2005-05-XX
1 2 2005-05-XX
I want to get data (under criteria of recvd date in table A) the
following records:
shipment ID Recd Date MaterialID Bond Date
Issue ID Issue Date
1 2005-XX-XX - -
- -
10 2005-XX-XX 1
2005-XX-XX 1 2005-05-XX
10 2005-XX-XX 1
2005-XX-XX 2 2005-05-XX
10 2005-XX-XX 2
2005-XX-XX - -
Basically I want a raw dump of data
- Should have all the shipments regardless of whether they have any
material items entered or not
- Should have all Material Items for Every Shipment regardless of
whether it was issued or not.
I know I need an outer join (Do I Not?), but am confused as to how to
implement it.
Because this seems to be a requirement of a reversed outer join (??)
Please assist,
Thanks in advance.