Bruno,

> I think you might be able to do this using (one sided) outer joins of the 
event
> table to the Case and Trial Group tables. The join rules will need to work 
for
> exactly one of the two tables. You probably will want to use case statements 
in
> the select list to pick values from the right table.

Yeah, I'm doing that in some places.  It just doesn't work for all queries.
COALESCE() is my friend.

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco


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