Re: Group By and wildcards...

Jon Lapham wrote:
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> Since I do not want to have to re-write all my aggregate function 
> containing queries upon modifications to the table definitions (and I do 
> not want to write multi-thousand character long SELECT statements), 
> maybe it is easier to use a temp table intermediary?
> 

> Ugly... ugly... any other ideas on how to do this?  My table definitions 
> LITERALLY have hundreds of columns, and I need access to them all.
> 

How about using a view? Create a view that contains only the ID columns, 
and then a second view encorporating the first view which joins to the 
appropriate tables and fetches the columns you want in the output of 
your query.

Just a thought.


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Russ.