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Show All Customers in Grid

Asked by: DFCRJ

I've got a grid that shows a routes customers MTD sales, the only problem I have encountered and didnt think about is, if a customer doesnt have any sales for the month it appears the route has zero customers. If a route has 25 customers and only 15 have MTD sales, I still need to show all customers in the grid. I've tried a few different things but cant get the results I need. Below is my stored procedure. Thanks for the help

SELECT   
  dbo.Customers.CustNo, dbo.Customers.Name, CAST(dbo.Customers.CustNo AS varchar(10)) + ' ' + RTRIM(dbo.Customers.Name) AS DisplayName,
SUM(dbo.Tickets.TicketTotal) AS MTD
FROM   dbo.Customers with(nolock) INNER JOIN
dbo.Tickets with(nolock)  ON dbo.Customers.LocationId = dbo.Tickets.LocationId AND dbo.Customers.CustNo = dbo.Tickets.CustNo
 WHERE     (dbo.Customers.RouteNo = @RouteNo) AND (dbo.Customers.LocationId = @LocationId) AND (MONTH(dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate)  = MONTH(GETDATE())) AND (YEAR(dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate) = YEAR(GETDATE())) 
GROUP BY dbo.Customers.CustNo, dbo.Customers.Name, CAST(dbo.Customers.CustNo AS varchar(10)) + ' ' + RTRIM(dbo.Customers.Name)
RETURN

                                  
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2009-01-06 at 04:56:24ID24027925
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SQL Server 2005

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Answers

 

by: TimCotteePosted on 2009-01-06 at 04:59:14ID: 23303796

Hello DFCRJ,

Make it a left join rather than an inner join. This will give you all customer records, not just those that have sales.

Regards,

TimCottee

 

by: DFCRJPosted on 2009-01-06 at 05:00:42ID: 23303807

tried that to. didnt work and all the other types of joins

 

by: TimCotteePosted on 2009-01-06 at 05:04:43ID: 23303833

DFCRJ,

Of course they would get filtered out by your where clause.

  SELECT  
    dbo.Customers.CustNo, dbo.Customers.Name, CAST(dbo.Customers.CustNo AS varchar(10)) + ' ' + RTRIM(dbo.Customers.Name) AS DisplayName,
  SUM(dbo.Tickets.TicketTotal) AS MTD
  FROM   dbo.Customers with(nolock) LEFT JOIN
  dbo.Tickets with(nolock)  ON dbo.Customers.LocationId = dbo.Tickets.LocationId AND dbo.Customers.CustNo = dbo.Tickets.CustNo
   WHERE     (dbo.Customers.RouteNo = @RouteNo) AND (dbo.Customers.LocationId = @LocationId) AND (((MONTH(dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate)  = MONTH(GETDATE())) AND (YEAR(dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate) = YEAR(GETDATE()))) OR dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate Is Null)
  GROUP BY dbo.Customers.CustNo, dbo.Customers.Name, CAST(dbo.Customers.CustNo AS varchar(10)) + ' ' + RTRIM(dbo.Customers.Name)
   RETURN

This should improve things as it avoids filtering the customers who don't have transactions out of the results.

TimCottee

 

by: DFCRJPosted on 2009-01-06 at 05:16:15ID: 23303930

well I'll tell you. Thats almost freaking perfect. I ran it on two or three different routes and it worked when the routes had  some customers with sales and customers that did not, just like i wanted. But when a route had not turned in any sales, then result set is blank. In order for it to show every customer on the route, the route must have some sales for the month. does that make any sense?

 

by: gkernPosted on 2009-01-06 at 06:11:02ID: 23304407

Hi,

You are using in the where clause "ticket" conditions which in case of no sales should be null!
Put the condition and add an or condition that allows null

 

by: gkernPosted on 2009-01-06 at 06:15:40ID: 23304444

SELECT  
    dbo.Customers.CustNo, dbo.Customers.Name, CAST(dbo.Customers.CustNo AS varchar(10)) + ' ' + RTRIM(dbo.Customers.Name) AS DisplayName,
  SUM(dbo.Tickets.TicketTotal) AS MTD
  FROM   dbo.Customers with(nolock) LEFT JOIN
  dbo.Tickets with(nolock)  ON dbo.Customers.LocationId = dbo.Tickets.LocationId AND dbo.Customers.CustNo = dbo.Tickets.CustNo
   WHERE    
   (dbo.Customers.RouteNo = @RouteNo) AND (dbo.Customers.LocationId = @LocationId) AND
   ((dbo.Tickets.LocationId Is null) or
   ((MONTH(dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate)  = MONTH(GETDATE())) AND
     (YEAR(dbo.Tickets.TransactionDate) = YEAR(GETDATE()))))
  GROUP BY dbo.Customers.CustNo, dbo.Customers.Name, CAST(dbo.Customers.CustNo AS varchar(10)) + ' ' + RTRIM(dbo.Customers.Name)
 

 

by: DFCRJPosted on 2009-01-06 at 06:22:31ID: 23304501

The Tickets.LocationId can never be a NULL value. The db has to hold that value which determines the users location.  I'm close to getting the results using TC's sp. below is the result.

4561319      Coast market             Coast market       NULL
6782223      Country market      Country market      NULL
4567044       Bait & tackle                            Bait & tackle        $92.40

 

by: DFCRJPosted on 2009-01-06 at 07:51:24ID: 31531355

Actually, this works out perfect. Thanks for the quick help!

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