Re: using OR in select statement with distinct results

2003-09-18 Thread Sam Folk-Williams
Thanks everyone, I suspected it was something quite simple. Sam Matt W wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:17 PM Subject: Re: using OR in select statement with distinct results At 7:47 PM -0500 9/18/03, Sam Folk-Williams wrot

Re: using OR in select statement with distinct results

2003-09-18 Thread Matt W
- Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:17 PM Subject: Re: using OR in select statement with distinct results > At 7:47 PM -0500 9/18/03, Sam Folk-Williams wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I keep having this fundamental proble

Re: using OR in select statement with distinct results

2003-09-18 Thread Kelley Lingerfelt
Won't putting the first OR in parenthesis, fix it up? SELECT t1.title, t2.auth_name FROM t1, t2, WHERE (cat_id = 1 OR cat_id = 2) AND t1.auth_id = t2.auth_id KL Sam Folk-Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I keep having this fundamental problem. It seems like this should be > easy enough, but whenever I

Re: using OR in select statement with distinct results

2003-09-18 Thread Paul DuBois
At 7:47 PM -0500 9/18/03, Sam Folk-Williams wrote: Hi, I keep having this fundamental problem. It seems like this should be easy enough, but whenever I have a query where I'm using OR in the WHERE clause and the query is performed on multiple tables, I get strange results. For example: SELECT

using OR in select statement with distinct results

2003-09-18 Thread Sam Folk-Williams
Hi, I keep having this fundamental problem. It seems like this should be easy enough, but whenever I have a query where I'm using OR in the WHERE clause and the query is performed on multiple tables, I get strange results. For example: SELECT t1.title, t2.auth_name FROM t1, t2, WHERE cat_id =