"David Portas" <REMOVE_BEFORE_REPLYING_dportas@acm.org> wrote in message news:<UeCdnZUl2PfduBmiRVn-hA@giganews.com>...
> I've already replied to this under your original thread. No need to repost.
>
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> "Jason" <JayCallas@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:f01a7c89.0310080543.657a9360@posting.google.c om...
> > From another post I was given a solution to a problem I was having
> > with creating a composite view of similiar rows.
> >
> >
> http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&...s.ms-sqlserver
> >
> > I hit a small issue with the following select statement:
> >
> > SELECT S.symbol,
> > COALESCE(T.xidentity,S.xidentity), COALESCE(T.idsource,S.idsource),
> > COALESCE(T.exchange,S.exchange), COALESCE(T.type,S.type),
> > COALESCE(T.subtype,S.subtype), COALESCE(T.xname,S.xname)
> > FROM Stocks AS S
> > JOIN
> > (SELECT symbol,
> > CASE COUNT(DISTINCT NULLIF(xidentity,''))
> > WHEN 1 THEN MAX(xidentity) END,
> > CASE COUNT(DISTINCT NULLIF(idsource,''))
> > WHEN 1 THEN MAX(idsource) END,
> > CASE COUNT(DISTINCT NULLIF(exchange,''))
> > WHEN 1 THEN MAX(exchange) END,
> > CASE COUNT(DISTINCT NULLIF(type,''))
> > WHEN 1 THEN MAX(type) END,
> > CASE COUNT(DISTINCT NULLIF(subtype,''))
> > WHEN 1 THEN MAX(subtype) END,
> > CASE COUNT(DISTINCT NULLIF(xname,''))
> > WHEN 1 THEN MAX(xname) END
> > FROM Stocks
> > GROUP BY symbol) AS T
> > (symbol, xidentity, idsource, exchange, type, subtype, xname)
> > ON S.symbol = T.symbol
> >
> > For SOME (in this case [type]) columns I need to set a priority. If
> > two rows have conflicting data (where COUNT > 1) on a particular
> > column, I want to use the value from the first row in the set. (I
> > would make sure that rows get inserted in the order I of priority.) I
> > thought of using TOP 1 somehow but cannot figure out how to replace
> > the MAX function with it (I know MAX is a function while TOP is a
> > statement).

My bad. For some reason I never saw MY post. Thought it never made it
to newsgroup. (Wish there was way to cancel post).

Thanks for answer Dave.