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Quote bwilkins Replybullet Topic: Can a column be a query?
    Posted: 29 Jan 2009 at 7:13am
Is there anyway to have a column in a report be a query?

Our MSSQL system was originally based on an IBM unidata system which has multivalued fields, so we have some serious structural issues...

I'm at a collage and trying to run a report that shows all our current students, not really hard.

But when I go to add a column that shows if they are a resident I run into problems. That table stores their residency status for many years and I only want to see the current semester. My only choice is to show all the semesters and then clean up in excel, because when I put in a select for the semester all of the commuter students disappear.

So is it possible to have a column be a query or formula that goes out and returns the residency status for a specific semester
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Quote lockwelle Replybullet Posted: 30 Jan 2009 at 6:11am

I never seen unidata, but if your records are like:

resident A, year 1
resident A, year 2
 
you can apply a filter to only get the year you want, or you can create a select statement to only retrieve what you want...or my favorite option, get the data from a stored procedure which gives you the most flexiblity in dealing with your data.
 
Hope this helps
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