I am having a terrible time trying to understand the outer join syntax for MySQL (Our sever version is: 3.23.56).
I have three tables I want to join two of which by inner joins and the other by an outer join. Here are my example tables: table1: +------+------+ | id | key | +------+------+ | 4321 | 1111 | +------+------+ table2: +------+------+-------------+ | id | type | weird | +------+------+-------------+ | 4321 | one | 1234-xxx-98 | | 4321 | two | NULL | +------+------+-------------+ table3: +------+----------+-----+ | prid | name | cid | +------+----------+-----+ | 1234 | Success! | 98 | | 1234 | Failure! | 87 | +------+----------+-----+ The following query gives me only one row with the contents of table2, row1 and t3, row1.name: select t2.*, t3.name from table1 t1, table2 t2, table3 t3 where t1.key = 1111 and t1.id = t2.id and t3.prid = substring_index(t2.weird, '-', 1) and t3.cid = substring_index(t2.weird, '-', -1); How do I change the query so that I get table2, row 2 as well with the name field blank (or NULL)? I thought I might use outer joins, but the syntax and online manual is just confusing me. Thanks. -- Nathan Christiansen Software Engineer Tahitian Noni International http://www.tahitiannoni.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
