On May 14, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
That doesn't work, unfortunately, because the urb (cities) table doesn't have the zip code. That's stored in a street table which foreign keys into the urb table.
SELECT name, zip, zip='04317' AS zipmatch
FROM urb LEFT JOIN streets ON (streets.urb_id = urb.urb_id )
ORDER BY zipmatch DESC, name
;
Of course you'll need to adjust the table and field names appropriately.
Someone should probably teach the gnumed folks about schemas, too... ;)
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