help with Views in VB6

[Playmaker]

Hi,
I creating a program that will print checks using the VB6 Data Report. I
want to be able to access data from two different tables in the details
section of the data report. I'm creating a view in SQL 7, that includes the two
tables that I need data from to be printed on the check. I want the view to
act like an ordinary table with the desired data in it. But everytime I run
a select on the data in Query Analyser it continues to run for about 20
minutes with thousands of records when there should only be about 2 thousand
records. Please help! I have a deadline on this project. Thanks.

Eddie

[Glenn]

Your on the right track a view is what you need. Why don't you post the select statement from your view and some info on the underlying table and maybe someone can help you.

[Playmaker]

Here's the select statement I'm using:

SELECT Claims.InjuryDate, Claims.ClaimantName, Claims.SS#,
Claims.LocationCode, Claims.OccupationCode,
Payments.TypeCode, Payments.Amount,
Payments.PaymentDate, Payments.StubDescription,
Payments.WksPdThisChk, Payments.CoveredFrom,
Payments.CoveredTo, Payments.TotWksPaid,
Payments.RateThisCheck, Payments.ProviderNumber,
Payments.PayeeName, Payments.Address1,
Payments.Address2, Payments.VouCheck#,
Payments.VouchCheck
FROM Claims INNER JOIN
Payments ON Claims.Number = Payments.ClaimNumber

I only want one copy of each record with the data from the two different tables. Just like if this view was a table in itself. Please help!

Eddie

[JHausmann]

Have you tried:

SELECT Claims.InjuryDate, Claims.ClaimantName, Claims.SS#,
Claims.LocationCode, Claims.OccupationCode,
Payments.TypeCode, Payments.Amount,
Payments.PaymentDate, Payments.StubDescription,
Payments.WksPdThisChk, Payments.CoveredFrom,
Payments.CoveredTo, Payments.TotWksPaid,
Payments.RateThisCheck, Payments.ProviderNumber,
Payments.PayeeName, Payments.Address1,
Payments.Address2, Payments.VouCheck#,
Payments.VouchCheck
FROM Claims, Payments
Where Claims.Number = Payments.ClaimNumber and (NOT ISNULL(claims.number))