looping with SQL

Hopefully this is a better explanation of what I tried to explain earlier.
Below is an example of a dataset I build as a #wkfile. It consists of a
count/identity, Company, AccountNo, and Title. I’m trying to loop thru wi
th
SQL to pull out one occurrence of Company Name and AccountNo, into a 2nd
dataset. When there are more than one occurrence, the priority is first -
CEO’ OR like ‘%CEO%’, second - ‘CFO’ or like ‘%CFO%’, and if n
either of them
then take the first title.
id Company AccountNo Title
1 national Publishers A2053145611 CEO
2 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045506 CFO
3 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091268226 Chief Executive Officer
4 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A3013151569 Finance Director/CFO
5 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091970756 President
6 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091204766 President/CEO
7 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091268239 Vice President
8 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045492 VP Finance & Service Management
9 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045541 VP Infrastructure Operations
10 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045455 VP Marketing
11 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045467 VP Sales
12 Andel Amba A3013151463 Finance Director/CFO
13 @.Global Inc A1022852020 President
14 @.plan, Inc. 99113038170 Chairman/CEO
15 @.plan, Inc. 99113038390 President/COO
16 @.plan, Inc. A0080460716 Vice President/CFO/CAO
17 @.radical.media, Inc. A4102749756 Chairman & CEO
18 @.radical.media, Inc. A4102749802 COO
19 @.radical.media, Inc. A4102749784 EVP
20 @.Road, Inc. A4071235030 CFOYou don't need to loop. It would have been nice if you supplied exact DDL
and real INSERT statements. Here's an untested solution:
select
o.*
from
MyTable
where
o.id in
(
select top 1
i.id
from
MyTable i
where
i.Company = o.Company
order by
case
when i.Title like '%CEO%' then 1
when i.Title like '%CFO%' then 2
else 3
end
, o.id
)
It's not clear what you mean by the "first" title, so I used id as the
tiebreaker.
Tom
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SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
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Hopefully this is a better explanation of what I tried to explain earlier.
Below is an example of a dataset I build as a #wkfile. It consists of a
count/identity, Company, AccountNo, and Title. I’m trying to loop thru wi
th
SQL to pull out one occurrence of Company Name and AccountNo, into a 2nd
dataset. When there are more than one occurrence, the priority is first -
CEO’ OR like ‘%CEO%’, second - ‘CFO’ or like ‘%CFO%’, and if n
either of them
then take the first title.
id Company AccountNo Title
1 national Publishers A2053145611 CEO
2 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045506 CFO
3 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091268226 Chief Executive Officer
4 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A3013151569 Finance Director/CFO
5 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091970756 President
6 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091204766 President/CEO
7 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc 99091268239 Vice President
8 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045492 VP Finance & Service Management
9 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045541 VP Infrastructure Operations
10 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045455 VP Marketing
11 (i)STRUCTURE, Inc A5051045467 VP Sales
12 Andel Amba A3013151463 Finance Director/CFO
13 @.Global Inc A1022852020 President
14 @.plan, Inc. 99113038170 Chairman/CEO
15 @.plan, Inc. 99113038390 President/COO
16 @.plan, Inc. A0080460716 Vice President/CFO/CAO
17 @.radical.media, Inc. A4102749756 Chairman & CEO
18 @.radical.media, Inc. A4102749802 COO
19 @.radical.media, Inc. A4102749784 EVP
20 @.Road, Inc. A4071235030 CFO

LookUp Entities and Roles against Multiple Entities?

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered, though I haven't found it via search.

In my report model I have a lookup entity that consists of a Code field (PK) and a Description field this is linked to a parent entity (table) and works fine, e.g. the description is shown in the parent entity instead of the FK code. However this lookup entity would be useful linked to many other entities (tables) which use the same FK code linked to the lookup entity's Code field (PK) for use of the Description field. In my first attempt I linked the lookup to a second table entity but unlike the originally linked table entity, this is not shown as the description in report builder, only the role appears and I have to select the role then the description from the 2 fields displayed (Code, Description), additionally I get shown the related first table entity.

Firstly can a lookup entity be linked to multiple tables?

Secondly, if so am I forgetting something so only the description is shown like in the first linked table entity?

Thirdly, if I correct the problem is there a property I need to enable/disable to stop the first linked table entity appearing in the second table entity entity list in report builder or should I just leave it?

Any help/advice/suggestions would be appreciated, and apologies for long list of questions but all the books and help files I have used don't seem to use imperfect/real life data sources and examples.

Thanks

Andy

This is a bit weird replying to myself, but think I need to let you know, and others who may come across the problem, I believe I have solved it.

The problem appeared to be related to my using more than 1 Identifying Attribute for the lookup entity. Once I amended this to one Identifying Attribute it would appear that all is well. I get the description instead of a role entity appearing and the lookup works with multiple table entities (e.g. more than one table entity is linked to the lookup-table entity). I think I misunderstood the IdentifyingAttributes property thinking this had to be the PK field.

Thanks

Andy