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Writing (SQL) queries?

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Posted on by Hedi Daneels 487

Hi Everyone,

I have reached another point of "how is this possible?!" in one of our projects

For a report, I need to create a join sql statement to get information from another table.

Explained:

I have a custom table with documents headers, that are linked to a customer. So far so good.

Now, for a report, I need to filter out those documents, based on the customer's country.

In a regular database setup, I would simply write an sql query with a join statement to get the country, and "where" on that.

Here, it seems simply impossible. What am I missing please?

Cheers

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    Bilal Haider Profile Picture
    Bilal Haider 414 on at

    Hi John,

    As far as I understand this. It is possible in Business Central. While designing Report Dataset as per your requirement:

    Add customer table as first data item and then add your custom document header table as second data item and link both of these dataitems based on Customer No. The property that links two dataitems is called DataItemLink. On running report when you put filter on Customer dataitem based on country, only those documents will be generated that belonged to customers with that country code.

    Hopefully this will help you. Thanks

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 1,111 Moderator on at

    If your are running OnPrem and have database access you can write a SQL query. If you run SaaS then you need another way to report on your data. You could use PowerBI to create the report you need.

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