I have three tables, affiliates, clients, and sales. The affiliates table stores all of the information about affiliates, clients about clients, sales about sales. In the clients table, there is a field for affiliate_id (affiliates refer clients), and in the sales table there is a field for client_id.
I need a query that will show me a list of all affiliates and the number of sales each affiliate has generated. I know this will involve a left join, but I can't figure it out, since it involves that third table. Which actually brings up another question: would be be better to store the affiliate_id in the sales table? The reason I do it this way, is because if an affiliate refers a client, and the client is involved in numerous sales, the affiliate should be credited each time. TIA! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
