Calc Invoices to Pay?

[Fairlight]

At Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:47:19AM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect Walter Vaughan was observed uttering:
> Fairlight wrote:
> 
> > <>This public service announcement was brought to you by Stanley Barnett:
> >
> > I need a routine that can find the correct invoices quickly by only
> > supplying the check amount. We are assuming the customer did not
> > partial pay an invoice.
> >
> >
> >I don't think that's possible to do with 100% accuracy.  
> >
> Hum... perhaps this is a place that fpSQL might be of help.
> You should be able to find things like this that would not require 
> writing code or understanding selection set development.

I think you missed a critical part.  He's not just matching individual
checque amounts, he's matching one sum against multiple cheques.  Please
show me the SQL statement that would come even remotely close--because I
don't believe it exists even in Oracle, much less fPSQL.

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Grats!

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