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Quote sanchezgmc06 Replybullet Topic: Matching a record by date
    Posted: 30 Oct 2018 at 3:24pm
I have to create a link from a "date of admission" field in one table to another record in a different table using the "date_of_entry" field.

However the dates will never match.

I need to be able to link the "date of admission" record to the closest "date of entry" record in a different table.

Not sure how to even start that

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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 05 Nov 2018 at 2:45am
Can you use a stored procedure to do this or are you limited to CR joins?
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Quote sanchezgmc06 Replybullet Posted: 08 Nov 2018 at 6:44am
Not sure

I will be writing the report in a command statement
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 15 Nov 2018 at 3:13am
I likely would handle this via a store procedure using a temp table to join the tables where the dates are >= the other date, do a rank over order to get the first record and then select a final table result against that
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