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Asked: 2026-06-15T09:21:19+00:00

Using the Sequel gem: employees = DB[:prm_master__employee.identifier] .join(:prm_master__employee_custom_fields.identifier, :employee => :employee) .where(termination_date >= ?,06/01/2012)

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Using the Sequel gem:

employees = DB[:prm_master__employee.identifier]
.join(:prm_master__employee_custom_fields.identifier, :employee => :employee)
.where("termination_date >= ?","06/01/2012")
.or("termination_date = NULL")
.and("employee = 'holderl'")

The above fails with:

~/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sequel-3.41.0/lib/sequel/adapters/tinytds.rb:221:in `fields': TinyTds::Error: Ambiguous column name 'employee'. (Sequel::DatabaseError)

I understand the error (same column names between joined tables, e.g employee), but do not know how I can qualify the employee condition in the and statement since the table uses the identifier method to ignore the underscores.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer is to actually qualify the column name using:

    Sequel.qualify(:table, :column)

    Or the equivalent shorter syntax:

    Sequel[:table][:column]

    resulting in:

    employees = DB[:prm_master__employee.identifier]
.join(:prm_master__employee_custom_fields.identifier, :employee => :employee)
.where("termination_date >= ?","06/01/2012")
.or("termination_date = NULL")
.and(Sequel.qualify(:prm_master__employee_custom_fields.identifier, :employee)  => "holderl")
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