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How to select first available record and skip others
Hi there,
in My table i have a field called primry, This can contain the data of 1, 0 or NULL for one person. I need to see if there are three records against one persons containing a row for each 1, 0 and NULL then then it selects only that row containing the record 1 ignoring the 0's and NULL rows and if the column contains 0 and NULL then it brings back the row with zero else it brings back the row with null.
can i do it without using cursor or inline function as the data returned is in thousands and cursor or inilne function will make it very slow.
kindest regards,
in My table i have a field called primry, This can contain the data of 1, 0 or NULL for one person. I need to see if there are three records against one persons containing a row for each 1, 0 and NULL then then it selects only that row containing the record 1 ignoring the 0's and NULL rows and if the column contains 0 and NULL then it brings back the row with zero else it brings back the row with null.
can i do it without using cursor or inline function as the data returned is in thousands and cursor or inilne function will make it very slow.
kindest regards,
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