>ACCT_CASE: Case Management table
>ACCT_ID    INTEGER    NOT NULL    PK
>CASE_ID    SMALLINT    NOT NULL    PK
>CLT_ID    INTEGER    NOT NULL    FK to CLIENT table  << Need this for the JOIN

 

>DEBTOR_CASE_DEBT:  Allows for multiple PERSON's to be associated with a DEBT
>ACCT_ID    INTEGER    NOT NULL    PK
>CASE_ID    SMALLINT    NOT NULL    PK
>DEBT_NO    SMALLINT    NOT NULL    PK
>PERSON_ID    INTEGER    NOT NULL    PK
>STATUS_DATE    TIMESTAMP    NOT NULL
>STATUS_CODE    CHAR(1)    NOT NULL

 

>What am I attempting to do?  I need to know how many records are in the DEBTOR_CASE_DEBT table that have a STATUS_DATE between '09/01/14' and '09/30/14'
>and the STATUS_CODE = 'B" (Bankruptcy Filed) and is for a specific CLT_ID (thus the join to ACCT_CASE to use CLT_ID).  I do not want to include the
>PERSON_ID when fetching a COUNT() of the record, I only need to know how many debts are in this status for the client.  So only concerned with ACCT_ID,
>CASE_ID and DEBT_NO.
> 
>So this SQL will return the correct number of records, now I just have to figure out how to return a count in one record.
> 
>      SELECT DISTINCT DCD.ACCT_ID, DCD.CASE_ID, DCD.DEBT_NO
>                 FROM DEBTOR_CASE_DEBT DCD
>                 JOIN ACCT_CASE AC ON AC.ACCT_ID = DCD.ACCT_ID
>                  AND AC.CASE_ID = DCD.CASE_ID
>                WHERE DCD.STATUS_DATE BETWEEN :V_BEGIN_DATE AND :V_END_DATE
>                  AND DCD.STATUS_CODE = 'B'
>                  AND AC.CLT_ID = :V_CLT_ID
>
>Did I provide enough information this time?  If not feel free to ask...

This is close to a perfect problem description, Mike, well done! The only (minor) thing lacking is a reason for you not wanting CLT_ID included...

I can think of two possible solutions:

a)
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT DCD.ACCT_ID||'-'||DCD.CASE_ID||'-'||DCD.DEBT_NO)
FROM DEBTOR_CASE_DEBT DCD
JOIN ACCT_CASE AC ON AC.ACCT_ID = DCD.ACCT_ID
AND AC.CASE_ID = DCD.CASE_ID
WHERE DCD.STATUS_DATE BETWEEN :V_BEGIN_DATE AND :V_END_DATE
AND DCD.STATUS_CODE = 'B'
AND AC.CLT_ID = :V_CLT_ID

b)
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM DEBTOR_CASE_DEBT DCD
WHERE DCD.STATUS_DATE BETWEEN :V_BEGIN_DATE AND :V_END_DATE
AND DCD.STATUS_CODE = 'B'
AND EXISTS(SELECT * FROM ACCT_CASE AC
WHERE AC.ACCT_ID = DCD.ACCT_ID
AND AC.CASE_ID = DCD.CASE_ID
AND AC.CLT_ID = :V_CLT_ID)

Myself, I generally prefer to have single field primary keys, one benefit of this is that you can use solution a) without having to do tricks with concatenation.

HTH,
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