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- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Monday, 21 Dec 1992 10:15:48 MST
- From: <IDAZS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92356.101548IDAZS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Subject: Using Views for data presentation
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- Dear Netters,
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- We here at ASU are trying to create Views for mailing labels.
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- First and last names are stored in separate fields in upper
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- case. We have been partially successful in combining them to display
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- in upper-lower case, using "substring" and "rtrim" functions. Names
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- that have spaces or dashes, like "James Mc donald" or
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- "Carol Terry-peplow" have been a problem. It seems that we cannot use
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- conditionals ('if', 'else') within a view.
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- If anyone has solved this problem or has a recommendation
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- please let us know. We are running SQL Server 4.8, and accessing the
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- data with views through client tools such as DataPrism.
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- Thanks.
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- Ajay Surana
- John Rome
- Data Administration
- Arizona State University
- Tempe, AZ
- (602) 965-0857
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