I have a table called 'Resources' that looks like this:
Country City Street Headcount
UK Halifax High Street 20
United Kingdom Oxford High Street 30
Canada Halifax North St 40
Because of the nature of the location fields, I need to map them to a single 'Address' field, and so I also have the following table called 'Addresses':
Country City Street Address
UK Halifax High Street High Street, Halifax, UK
Canada Halifax North St North Street, Halifax, Canada
United Kingdom Oxford High Street High Street, Oxford, UK
(In reality the Address field does add information rather than just combining what is already there.)
I am currently using the following SQL to produce the query:
SELECT Resources.Country, Resources.City, Resources.Street, Addresses.Address,
Resources.Headcount
FROM Resources
INNER JOIN Addresses ON Resources.Country = Addresses.Country
AND Resources.City = Addresses.City
AND Resources.Street = Addresses.Street
This works for me, but I am worried that I have not seen people use this many ANDs in a single join elsewhere, so don't know if it is a bad idea. (This is simplified version - I may need up to 8 ANDs in a single join in another case) Is this the best way to approach the problem, or is there a better solution?
Thanks