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Re: conditional return of data in SELECT
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: January 26, 2021 11:20AM

> Everyone lives in a town of some sort (other than some people in northern Maine

Not where some of us live.

> idea is to keep the town name in the "names_and_town" table
> UNLESS that town has a hit in the other table

Not sound, not efficient eg when an individual moves from a town not represented in the other table to a town that is, you need to do two updates.

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