Yes - that worked fine and is largely the same as Ben's - except that his states OUTER. Is the OUTER assumed when it's not stated?
Just so that I understand - the relationship is made on the ON, which designates a subset. Then that is queried with the WHERE. and thank you very much. It helps me alot. >I think what you really want is something like this: > >SELECT n.meeting_name,n.type,n.note_date,n.notes,n.type_describe >FROM notes_to_the_record n LEFT JOIN notes_to_the_record_shared s on >n.n_r_id = s.n_r_id >WHERE > n.ID = #session.user.id# OR > s.id = #session.user.id# >ORDER BY UPPER(n.meeting_name) ASC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:267292 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

