Hello all, I'm hoping someone can help me.
Our ERP system runs on M$ SQL. I try not to meddle with it because
any changes are ruined when we upgrade to the latest version of the
software. So, I created another small database on the same server with
the additional information needed for my reports.
Table 1 is the list of our outside sales reps and their e-mail addresses.
The 2nd set of tables are sales tables from our ERP database.
Here
is my problem. I am writing a weekly sales report and using an outside
program to automate things, I am e-mailing them to our sales reps.
However, if a rep doesn't have any sales, then nothing comes up in
crystal when that rep number is entered as a parameter. Knowing that I
wanted a report of some kind to result, I tried to do a left outer join
from the rep number field in table 1 (from my database) to the second
set of tables I get no records. If I get no records, then I cannot
pull the e-mail address from my table to e-mail a blank report.
I upgraded to XI Developer because I had read on the web that CR9 had problems with outer joins.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA.
Edited by Sensei - 12 Sep 2007 at 12:27pm