Help required please - can't work out how to do this

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Post Author: mavrick5
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Maybe I am just having a mental blank but I need to write a report that does the following. We have a sales header and sales detail file.  The key to the header file is the transaction number.  The transaction number is one of the keys for the detail file.  I need to be able to select the details of all transactions that may have contained products from a specified department.  eg.  a customer bought eggs on a transaction, what else was purchased on the same transaction.  Management want to know what complimentary products are sold with our premium products. Now, I know I could do this with a subquery.  However, we are using MySQL 3.51 and it does not support subqueries.

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Post Author: mavrick5
CA Forum: Data Connectivity and SQL
Thanks for the reply.  I have been working on this report today and came up with the same answer.  Here is the actual query generated by CR XI if I select a single day and all departments.  SELECT `saled1`.`sprice`, `saled1`.`qty`, `saled1`.`cost`, `saleh1`.`datewhen`, `saled1`.`store`, `state1`.`descr`, `store1`.`descr`, `speople1`.`name`, `sub_dep1`.`description`, `dept_1`.`dept`, `dept1`.`dept` FROM   {oj ((((((((((`ngho`.`saled` `saled1` INNER JOIN `ngho`.`plu` `plu1` ON `saled1`.`plu`=`plu1`.`FINELINE`) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`sub_dep` `sub_dep1` ON `plu1`.`subdep`=`sub_dep1`.`subdept`) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`dept` `dept1` ON `sub_dep1`.`dept`=`dept1`.`dept`) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`saleh` `saleh1` ON ((`saled1`.`store`=`saleh1`.`store`) AND (`saled1`.`register`=`saleh1`.`register`)) AND (`saled1`.`sequence`=`saleh1`.`sequence`)) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`speople` `speople1` ON (`saleh1`.`store`=`speople1`.`store`) AND (`saleh1`.`staffno`=`speople1`.`userid`)) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`store` `store1` ON `saleh1`.`store`=`store1`.`store`) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`state` `state1` ON `store1`.`state`=`state1`.`state`) LEFT OUTER JOIN `ngho`.`saled` `saled_1` ON ((`saled1`.`store`=`saled_1`.`store`) AND (`saled1`.`register`=`saled_1`.`register`)) AND (`saled1`.`sequence`=`saled_1`.`sequence`)) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`plu` `plu_1` ON `saled_1`.`plu`=`plu_1`.`FINELINE`) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`sub_dep` `sub_dep_1` ON `plu_1`.`subdep`=`sub_dep_1`.`subdept`) INNER JOIN `ngho`.`dept` `dept_1` ON `sub_dep_1`.`dept`=`dept_1`.`dept`} WHERE  `saleh1`.`datewhen`={d '2008-01-02'} ORDER BY `sub_dep1`.`description`, `state1`.`descr`, `store1`.`descr`, `speople1`.`name`The query fails in CR XI (Failed to retrieve data error) and also fails if you run it within a query analyser (error code 1064, syntax error).  However, if you remove the brackets after the FROM clause and the corresponding ending brackets, the query works fine.How can I prevent CR from automatically adding the brackets when it dynamically builds the query?   I cannot create a stored procedure as MySQL 3.51 does not support them.