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• tran008

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  February 6, 2004 at 7:52 am

  #107624

  Hi all,

  I have a table with 538790 row count, but if I do an 'left outer join' with another table, I received more row count. Can any one explain why I'm getting this?

  thanks

• Frank Kalis

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  February 6, 2004 at 8:06 am

  #493085

  Can you post the statement?

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• tran008

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  February 6, 2004 at 8:26 am

  #493091

  select count (*) from order1

  result=538790

  select a.orderid, b.orderid from order1 a left outer join order_old b on

  a.orderid=b.orderid order by b.orderid

• noeld

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  February 6, 2004 at 8:52 am

  #493096

  You have Duplicates OrderIds on your "order_old" table or on your "order1" table

   HTH

   

  
  * Noel

• Johan Bijnens

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  February 6, 2004 at 9:03 am

  #493099

  noeld is probably right.

  If you have a sql2k sp3a and a multiprocessor-box, you need a hotfix for the count(*). That could also be a reason.

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