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July 26th, 2007, 02:51 PM

wwward

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Basic join problem (newbie)

Two tables: Category, and Topics.

I need a query to return all rows from the Category table and its related Topics. A row should be returned even when a category does not have a related Topic row. Seems simple enough.

SELECT Category.CategoryID, Topics.Title
FROM
Category LEFT OUTER JOIN
Topics ON Category.CategoryID = Topics.CategoryID
WHERE (Topics.DefaultStoryID = 10)
ORDER BY Category.CategoryID

It works in MS Access, but I can't get it to work in MSSQL for the life of me, regardless of the types of join I use. Only Category rows with at least one matching Topic are returned. I don't have a lot of hair anymore, but what's left is going fast. Any help is appreciated.

November 9th, 2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by wwward

Has something to be with your where clause.

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