Hi there,

As the title of this topic illustrates, i'm having trouble dumping relevant data from columns of different tables. Using isql*plus, I have three tables appropriatly related. A 'course' table, 'student' and 'next_of_kin' tables. I have many students enrolled on various courses but only a hanfull of courses offer the module option 'Database Systems'. I have no 'module' table but i know the three course names which provide the module option. I intend on producing a report hich lists all students enrolled on the courses which provid the module option 'Database Systems'. I have attempted the report but i keep getting a 'cartesian product' displaying all next_of_kin names instead of the appropriate. Also i am struggling to come up with the right WHERE statement to depict only the three courses which provide the module option 'Database Systems' as defined by 'courseNo' in both 'course' and 'student' tables.

Here is the most recent attempt:

--set echo off
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col A format 99999999 heading 'Student No'
col B format A15 heading 'Student Name'
col C format A15 heading 'Course Name'
col D format 99999999 'Course No'
col E format A10 heading 'Next-of-Kin'
break on A skip 1 on B

TTitle 'Business Studies 1 Option BT300'
BTitle 'Prepared By : Richard Stroud / 20527796'

Select student.StudentNo "Student No",
student.fName || ' ' || student.lName "Student Name",
course.title "Course Name",
course.courseNo "Course No",
next_of_kin.fName || ' ' || next_of_kin.lName "Next-of-Kin"

From student, course, next_of_kin
where course.courseNo = '12885545'

order by studentNo

--clear columns
--TTitle off
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--set feedback on
--set pagesize 24
--clear breaks

Any help towards this toipic will be GREATLY appreciated

You have to tell the database how the tables you want it to read from are related. The way your query is written, it's going to match every student with every next of kin, and match the Cartesian product with a particular course. You've explicitly limited the query to only one course, but you haven't given any guidance on how to pull only the students, etc, that are relevant for your report.

This needs a join clause. I'm guessing that there's a many to many relationship between students and courses (a student can take many courses, a course can be taught to many students), and that your next of kin table doesn't map between them. There's probably another table, ideally with a name like students_in_courses, that tells you student #1 is taking course #1 and course #2, whereas student #2 is taking course #38, etc. You'll need this in your query, to limit the Cartesian product you're seeing.