Re: subselects

hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:03:36PM -0500, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> > I tried to do this:
> > SELECT r , a , (SELECT u , re FROM dir WHERE u = a) , cdate FROM rep
> > WHERE m IN(190);
>
> why dont you use simple join?
> like:
> select rep.r, rep.a, rep.cdate, dir.u, dir.re from rep, dir where rep.m in
> (190) and rep.a = dir.u;
>
> this should (i guess) work perfectly
>

Because in my case I'm dynamically generated the select by passing in
some String values, which are inserted into SELECT x,x,x from mytable so
I can't do a simple join.

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