Please consider the following SQL

  SELECT e.eid, e.name
  FROM entry e, access a
  WHERE e.eid = 120
  AND (e.ownid = 66 OR e.aid = a.aid)

The intent is to match one entry with the eid of 120. However I would
like to impose an additional constraint that either e.ownid must be 66
or e.aid must match the aid of an entry in the access table (there's
actually a lot more to the query but I think this should be sufficient
to illustrate my problem).

The problem is that the e.ownid is 66 and therefore the same entry is
returned for each access entry.

Of course I can simply SELECT DISTINCT but that seems like an improper
usage of DISTINCT here.

Is there an alternative way to write this query? I only want to select
from the access table for the purpose of constraining by aid.

Mike

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Michael B Allen
Java Active Directory Integration
http://www.ioplex.com/

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