I have two tables. One for the quantity of an item I need to buy, and
one for the quantity of an item I already own. I want to "balance"
these two tables so that I subtract the amount I need from what I
own..
For example:
ToBuy
---------
Item A: 6
Item B: 5
Item C: 3
Owned
---------
Item A: 1
Item B: 5
Item C: 5
The results should be:
ToBuy
----------
Item A: 5 (since I already own one)
Item B: 0 (since I already had five)
Item C: 0 (Since I already had five)
Owned
---------
Item A: 0 (since I used up the one I had)
Item B: 0 (since I used up all five)
Item C: 2 (since I used 3, but have 2 left)
Here's the catch: I want to DELETE any row (in either table) that has
zero quantity, since I no longer need this data (plus I have a CHECK
constraint on this value and require it to be positive anyway)..
Is there actually a way to do this in a SQL function? Thanks!
Mike
