If I understand your question correctly (and I'm really not sure about that), you're using a LEFT JOIN where you actually want to use a RIGHT JOIN. Or you need to rewrite your query and set the tables in another order.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 23:01, Nigel Peck <nigel.p...@miswebdesign.com> wrote: > > Can someone please help me with this one? > > I'm trying to SELECT from a table only those records that have a record, > matching a search term, in a table related by a many to many relationship. > The many to many relationship is in a mapping/junction table. > > Here's an example of what I have so far: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > SELECT > `Notes`.`note_id` > FROM > `Notes` > > INNER JOIN > `Notes__Districts` > ON > `Notes__Districts`.`note_id` = `Notes`.`note_id` > > LEFT JOIN > `Districts` > ON > `Districts`.`district_id` = `Notes__Districts`.`district_id` > > WHERE > `Districts`.`name` REGEXP 'bradford'; > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Hopefully someone can see what I'm trying to do here and point me in the > right direction :) > > Maybe I need to use a subquery? I've got a feeling I can do this without > that but can't get my head round how to set up the JOINs in this case with > having to use three tables in the one query, I'm only used to two tables at > once. > > I couldn't find any tutorials that cover this. > > Thanks in advance, > Nigel > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mart...@crystal-labs.nl > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
