It looked good, but it gave me an error.. Sorry
Database error:
Invalid SQL: SELECT WLPbib.bibID,
WLPbib.title,
WLPbib.publisher,
WLPbib.publicationDate,
WLPaddress.city,
WLPaddress.state,
WLPprofile.firstName,
WLPprofile.lastName,
WLPprofile.organization,
WLPcountry.languageName FROM WLPbib LEFT JOIN WLPprofile ON
WLPbib.profileID = WLPprofile.profileID LEFT JOIN WLPaddress ON
WLPbib.publisherID = WLPaddress.publisherID LEFT JOIN WLPcountry ON
WLPaddress.countryID = WLPcountry.countryID ORDER BY WLPbib.title GROUP BY
WLPbib.bibID
MySQL Error: 1064 (You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'GROUP BY
WLPbib.bibID ' at line 10)
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Ken wrote:
> Mike -
>
> I'm not certain but it sounds like you might be looking for "GROUP BY". Do GROUP BY
>and then the columns that are identical in your results.
>
> - Ken
>
> At 09:46 PM 7/11/01 -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I posted this to the general list this morning & got a couple of good leads, but
>they weren't able to actually fix the problem, so I'm posting here to the db list.
>>
>>I'm making some headway on joining three MySQL tables.
>>
>>However, when I run this query:
>>
>>mysql_query("SELECT
>> WLPbib.bibID,
>> WLPbib.title,
>> WLPbib.publisher,
>> WLPbib.publicationDate,
>> WLPaddress.city,
>> WLPaddress.state,
>> WLPprofile.firstName,
>> WLPprofile.lastName,
>> WLPprofile.organization,
>> WLPcountry.languageName
>> FROM WLPbib
>> LEFT JOIN WLPprofile ON WLPprofile.profileID = WLPbib.profileID
>> LEFT JOIN WLPaddress ON WLPaddress.publisherID = WLPbib.publisherID
>> LEFT JOIN WLPcountry ON WLPcountry.countryID = WLPaddress.countryID");
>>
>>I now get results in triplicate. ie. I'm getting three copies of the same title,
>firstName, organization, etc....
>>
>>I somehow suspected that this should be the result with LEFT JOIN, but I'm not sure
>how to return a query without duplication.
>>
>>This is far better than what I had this morning (which was no response from the
>server).
>>
>>Thanks. I'm new to joining tables...
>>
>>Someone wrote back suggesting that SELECT DISTINCT could be used to to the job.
>>
>>Another person suggested that using UNIQUE(profileID) would make it look nicer. I
>wasn't sure how to use UNIQUE with the last JOIN as it isn't directly linked to
>WLPbib..
>>
>>Any suggestions would be useful.
>>
>>Mike
>>
>
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