Question

I’ve got the following query

SELECT tblUsers.userfullname, 
       tblReports.reportdate, 
       tblReports.reportnumber, 
       tblRawData.reportcategory, 
       tblRawData.reportissue
FROM tblRawData 
RIGHT JOIN (tblUsers RIGHT JOIN tblReports ON tblUsers.userID = tblReports.userID) ON tblReports.reportnumber LIKE "*" & tblRawData.reportnum
WHERE (
       ((tblUsers.username) Like "*" & [Forms]![frmSelect]![txtUser] & "*") 
       AND
       ((tblUsers.userShift) Like "*" & [Forms]![frmSelect]![txtShift] & "*")
      );

Which works – except the part of

ON tblReports.reportnumber LIKE "*" & tblRawData.reportnum

what i’m trying to match is instances where

tblReports.reportnumber = 410145

and

tblRawData.reportnum = 12345.410145

or just

tblRawDatw.reportnum = 410145

but for some reason it just will not find that first match (ex: 12345.410145) unless the number is identical like the second match (ex: 410145). I’ve tried formatting it as a number as well as text – and no luck.

any idea what I may be missing?

Update: I tried making another query with just the two tables and it doesn’t like to match. i tried removing the “.” (example: 12345.410145 into 12345410145) and no luck. here’s my second query.

SELECT tblReports.userID, 
tblRawData.reportnum,
tblRawData.reportcategory,
tblRawData.reportissue,
tblReports.reportdate,
tblReports.reportnumber
FROM tblReports
LEFT JOIN tblRawData ON tblReports.reportnumber LIKE "*" & tblRawData.reportnum;

where if the data is like such.

tblReports Report numbers:
410145
410144
410143
410142
410141

and tblRawData report numbers are such:
12345.410145
410143
12344.410141

the resulting query should show me all 5 records from tblReports – but three of those records have the notes and such from tblRawData.

Answer 1

Rewritten to allow for no match.

SELECT 
   u.userfullname, 
   r.reportdate, 
   r.reportnumber, 
   q.reportcategory, 
   q.reportissue
FROM (tblusers u 
LEFT JOIN tblreports r 
ON u.userid = r.userid) 
LEFT JOIN (
   SELECT 
      Val(Mid([reportnum],InStr([reportnum],".")+1)) AS RepNo, 
      r.reportcategory, 
      r.reportissue
   FROM Rawdata AS r)  AS q
ON r.reportnumber = q.RepNo
AND q.username  Like "*" & [Forms]![frmSelect]![txtUser] & "*"
AND q.userShift Like "*" & [Forms]![frmSelect]![txtShift] & "*"

It is a common enough convention that LEFT JOINs are used rather than RIGHT JOINs.