Re: [SQL] Linking against null-fields.

2001-10-09 Thread Stephan Szabo
> SELECT f.ID, d.NAME FROM FILE f, DRIVER d WHERE (d.ID = f.DRIVER); > > However, the only reason I have this query set up as this is to get the name > of the driver easily, if one is set. > > How can this be helped? Should I just get the driver ID as a field, and then > do a second query on that?

Re: [SQL] Linking against null-fields.

2001-10-09 Thread david
Hi Alex, For this you need an outer join (Made easy as of postgresql 7.1) Alexander Deruwe Wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm sorry if this question came up before, I couldn't find it in the > archives.. > > Suppose I have two tables: > > table File: contains alot of fields + 'driver' field, which refe