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TSQL - IF EXISTS SELECT From Mulitple Tables

Jonathan Woods
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#1: Oct 21 '08
Dear Gurus,

How do I determine if data exists from multiple tables in SQL Server
2000?

For example,

IF EXISTS
(
( SELECT ColA FROM TableA WHERE ... ) AND
( SELECT ColB FROM TableB WHERE ... )
)
BEGIN
-- Need to do something here
END


Thanks in advance...

Jonathan


Alberto Poblacion
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#2: Oct 21 '08

re: TSQL - IF EXISTS SELECT From Mulitple Tables


"Jonathan Woods" <yewinzaw@gmail.comwrote in message
news:f5bef686-5504-4fa2-8516-3e8a1b4d4228@25g2000prz.googlegroups.com...
Quote:
How do I determine if data exists from multiple tables in SQL Server
2000?
>
For example,
>
IF EXISTS
(
( SELECT ColA FROM TableA WHERE ... ) AND
( SELECT ColB FROM TableB WHERE ... )
)
BEGIN
-- Need to do something here
END
Rewrite it as
IF Exists (select...from TableA...) AND Exists (select...from
TableB...)

Another option would be
IF Exists (select... from TableA INNER JOIN TableB ON...)

You may get some better answers if you ask this question in a Sql Server
newsgroup instead of the C# one.

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