I am perplexed trying to retrieve all the rows I need in the query I'm doing.
I have a table with keeping track of people using ID numbers as the primary key and another table with coupon numbers and a reference to the first table. But not all the second table is going to have correlating matches to the first table. So, in other words not all people have a coupon number entered into the database. I run the query: SELECT table1.id, table2.coupon FROM table1, table2 WHERE table1.id=table2.person_id; I expect back a report of the 213 rows in table1 and their matching coupon # if they have one. Instead, I get 174 rows and THEIR matching coupons but no results from the others. I want to write a query that will return the id's from table1 and the table2 coupon regardless of whether the table2.person_id matches table1.id. How do I do this? Thanks, Dean --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
