I realize that, but it was ignoring limiting the recordset to abstractID =
1.

Here is the solution to the problem:

SELECT a.*, b.*
FROM            tblDocMaster as a left outer join tblDocDiagnosisDate as b
                on a.abstractID = b.abstractID
WHERE   a.abstractID = #URL.abstractID#

Dan


>That's what an LEFT OUTER join does, by definition. You want to do an INNER
>join (i.e. return only the rows where there is a match between the two
tables).

>Joe

>Daniel J O'Keefe wrote:

> The query below returns all records in the left table (tblDocMaster). The
> table on the right (tblDocDiagnosisDate) does not contain any records.
Even
> if I add one record to the table on the right with an abstractID, I still
> get all records on the left table.
>
> SELECT a.*, b.*
> FROM     tblDocMaster as a left outer join tblDocDiagnosisDate as b
>           on a.abstractID = b.abstractID AND a.abstractID = 1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dan

Dan

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