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Join Question, need to return all "months&yr" for each project... even if 0

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I have a table that has a running total, that looks like this:

PROJECT# / MONTH&YEAR / SPEND / CUMULATIVE SPEND

In this table, I ran across a problem where if the spend was 0 in a particular month, the cumulative spend for that project would not come across...

So, in order to remedy this, I created a table that contains all project #'s and all months&yr combos...

I wanted to join this to my original table so that every project# had a record for every single month...

But this isn't happening, I tried the left, right, inner, cross, outer...

Any ideas / suggestions?

Thanks

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asked Aug 10 '12 at 03:12 PM in Default

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I've tried it like this, and it seems to work:

  1. Create your MonthYear list
  2. Cross join that with all the project IDs
  3. Left outer join the results of that against your main table.

Here's some sample code to show the idea:

declare @MonYear table (MonYear  char(6))
Insert into @MonYear values 
('012012'), ('022012'), ('032012'), ('042012'), ('052012'), ('062012')

declare @ProjectID table (ProjectID int)
INSERT INTO @ProjectID values (1), (2)

declare @ProjSales table (ProjectID int, MonYear char(6), Spend money, CumulativeSpend money)
insert into @ProjSales values 
(1, '012012', 500.00, 500.00), (1, '042012', 500.00, 1000.00),
(2, '012012', 100.00, 100.00), (2, '022012', 100.00, 200.00), (2, '032012', 100.00, 300.00), 
(2, '042012', 100.00, 400.00), (2, '052012', 100.00, 500.00), (2, '062012', 100.00, 600.00)

SELECT my.MonYear, pid.ProjectID, ps.Spend, ps.CumulativeSpend
FROM (@MonYear my CROSS JOIN @ProjectID pid) LEFT OUTER JOIN @ProjSales ps ON my.MonYear = ps.MonYear AND pid.ProjectID = ps.ProjectID
ORDER BY 1,2

And here's the output:

MonYear ProjID  Spend   CumulativeSpend
012012  1       500.00  500.00
012012  2       100.00  100.00
022012  1       NULL    NULL
022012  2       100.00  200.00
032012  1       NULL    NULL
032012  2       100.00  300.00
042012  1       500.00  1000.00
042012  2       100.00  400.00
052012  1       NULL    NULL
052012  2       100.00  500.00
062012  1       NULL    NULL
062012  2       100.00  600.00
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answered Aug 10 '12 at 07:45 PM

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Thanks, this is much nicer than the solution I had created - as always, your help is appreciated!

Aug 10 '12 at 09:07 PM TelepathicSheep2
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Figured it out, I'm using a UNION to add those rows where the DATE is not equal...

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answered Aug 10 '12 at 07:03 PM

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