Ludwig Magnusson wrote: > It does make sense. I rewrote the query by hand (changed AND to OR) and > executed it in the MySql console and it gave the response I wanted.
I still suspect that this is error prone. I'd be interested in the output of "explain". > The situation is kind of like this: > Table a is a category table, it only contains ids and names of categories. > Table B is a "products sold" table, and table C is a "products bought" > table. All products belong to a certain category, and I want a query that > gives me all the categories that a certain user has sold/bought products > from. I'd suggest to right join table b to a, left join table a to c, check for not null and be sure to set distinct (you did that anyway, didn't you?) Bye, Thomas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: torque-user-unsubscr...@db.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: torque-user-h...@db.apache.org