Question

I am having problems running a query without either truncating the note field in NotesTbl or returning repeated entries.

UID is not unique for AccessTbl. When I leave out “distinct” notes will return multiple times because I am joining with AccessTbl on a non-distinct condition. When I use distict, the note field is trunctated because it is a memo field.

Here is my query:

SELECT DISTINCT NotesTbl.pin, NotesTbl.noteid, NotesTbl.note, NotesTbl.date,
AccessTbl.affiliation, AccessTbl.name
FROM NotesTbl
LEFT JOIN AccessTbl
ON NotesTbl.UID = AccessTbl.UID
WHERE PIN = #pin#
AND UID = '#uid#'
ORDER BY NotesTbl.DATE DESC

Answer 1

I found a solution that seems to work. I used a “group by” to force distinctness on the PIN and NoteID. I tried to exclude the note from distinctness comparissons by using First() to avoid truncation.

SELECT NotesTbl.pin, NotesTbl.noteid, First(NotesTbl.note) as notebody, NotesTbl.date,
AccessTbl.affiliation, AccessTbl.name
FROM NotesTbl
LEFT JOIN AccessTbl
ON NotesTbl.UID = AccessTbl.UID
WHERE PIN = #pin#
AND UID = '#uid#'
GROUP BY pin,affiliation,name,date,noteid
ORDER BY NotesTbl.DATE DESC