James,
> Also, surely if you left join to a table then if there's no matching row you get a null value in your result set. So I'm not sure what the difference is between getting that null because you store it in a column in the primary table, and deriving it by left joining to a related table with no matching rows. Handling nulls in your resultsets makes a heck of a lot more sense than also storing these NULLs :-) Martijn Tonies Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
