Tristan Leask <> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> It's a Monday morning and my brain isn't working properly (surprise,
> surprise!)
>
> Anyway, I have 3 tables that I want to join together.
>
> Table 1 has 1 record =
>
> "Table1 My data"
>
> Table 2 has 1 record =
>
> "Table2 My data"
>
> Table 3 has 2 records =
>
> "Table3 My data record 1"
> "Table3 My data record 2"
>
> The output I want to get is to have 2 records of data that looks like
> the following...
>
> "Table1 My data", "Table2 My data", "Table3 My data record 1"
> "Table1 My data", .NULL., "Table3 My data record 2"
>
> Is this even possible with one SQL statement? Or would it just be
> easier to split it into two?
>
> SELECT table1.f1, table2.f1, table3.f1 FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2
> INNER JOIN table3 ON <join> ON <join> WHERE <statement> INTO CURSOR
> myCursor
>
> Comes back with...
>
> "Table1 My data", "Table2 My data", "Table3 My data record 1"
> "Table1 My data", "Table2 My data", "Table3 My data record 2"
No problem.
SELECT table1.f1, table2.f1, table3.f1 FROM table1
LEFT JOIN table2 ON <join>
left JOIN table3 ON <join>
WHERE <statement> INTO CURSOR myCursor
Don't use the "inner". Allow nulls with "outer" or " " type of left or
right joins.
HTH
Stephen Russell
DBA / .Net Developer
Memphis TN 38115
901.246-0159
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