Matching multiple columns from two tables

Hi all..
I have two tables such as cisco and ciscocom. and i wan to compare each
row of ciscocom with cisco having same column values. i wan to get the
count of matching columns for each row in cisco...
eg:
Ciscocom has columns: Products,fw,ports,sec,des,tput etc and cisco has
columns:fw,ports,sec,des,tput etc. i wan the number of matching colum
for each row in ciscocom. please provide me with the procedure...
Waiting for your response...Kuttan
SELECT cisco .*, ciscocom.*
FROM cisco
FULL OUTER JOIN
ciscocom
ON cisco .c1 = ciscocom.c1
AND cisco .c2 = ciscocom.c2
..
AND cisco .cn = ciscocom.cn
WHERE cisco .key IS NULL OR ciscocom.key IS NULL
"Kuttan" <vvyshak@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all..
> I have two tables such as cisco and ciscocom. and i wan to compare each
> row of ciscocom with cisco having same column values. i wan to get the
> count of matching columns for each row in cisco...
> eg:
> Ciscocom has columns: Products,fw,ports,sec,des,tput etc and cisco has
> columns:fw,ports,sec,des,tput etc. i wan the number of matching colum
> for each row in ciscocom. please provide me with the procedure...
> Waiting for your response...
>|||thanks a lot..
But it doesnt worked.
Actually i wan the columns that matches with each rows of the cisco
from ciscocom...
Anyway thanx a lot for your response...
thank u so much..|||Hope this is what you're looking for
SELECT COUNT (cisco.Products)
FROM cisco INNER JOIN ciscocom
ON
cisco.Products=cisco.Products AND
cisco.fw=cisco.fw AND
cisco.ports=cisco.ports
/*
* If you want to specify a value for a column
*
*/
WHERE cisco.Products='your_value'