Go it... just needed to add: group by nc.new_community_name
before the order by clause Thanks for your assistance! Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: How to limit this query to 1 photo per community? > > This should work: > > select TOP (1) nc.new_community_id, nc.new_community_name, > nc.new_community_short_desc, > ncp.new_community_photo_w150, ncp.new_community_photo_w500 > from new_communities nc, new_community_photos ncp > where nc.new_community_id = ncp.new_community_id > order by nc.new_community_name > > > Bruce > > Rick Faircloth wrote: > > This seems like it ought to be simple, but I'm not > > quite seeing the solution. > > > > How would I adjust this query to select one community > > from the new_communities table > > and only the *first* photo from the new_community_photos table. > > > > Right now I get the community as many times as there are photos for it. > > > > I want *one* community and *one* matching photo. > > > > Here's what I put together and then realized the problem... > > > > select nc.new_community_id, nc.new_community_name, > > nc.new_community_short_desc, > > ncp.new_community_photo_w150, ncp.new_community_photo_w500 > > from new_communities nc, new_community_photos ncp > > where nc.new_community_id = ncp.new_community_id > > order by nc.new_community_name > > > > ??? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rick > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301983 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
