I have the following tables:
Category (has two columns "Input", "Mapping")
OJ | Orange Juice |
APP | Apple Juice |
So OJ should be mapped to Orange Juice and so on.
Here is the main table: Product
Product (has the following columns:ID, ProdGroup) and possible values are:
1 | OJ |
2 | OJ|APP |
3 | APP|CRN |
Now, what I am trying to do is to join the two tables based on Category.Input vs. Product.ProdGroup; however, the problem is that Product.ProdGroup could have multiple values and in this case, just use the first item for matching. For example,
OJ|APP -> Just use OJ, which is mapped to OJ in Category table and it should return Orange Juice
I was thinking a query like this:
SELECT PR.ID, PR.ProdGroup, CAT.Mapping FROM Product PR
INNER JOIN Category CAT ON PR.ProdGroup LIKE '%' + CAT.Input + '%'
Expected result:
1 | OJ | Orange Juice |
2 | OJ|APP | Orange Juice |
3 | APP|CRN | Apple Juice |
Unfortunately, it does not seem to work the way I would like.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
SK