Thanks guys, this works great. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > Each outer join gets an on clause. You might want something like: > select > coalesce(a.n,0) as a, > coalesce(b.n,0) as b, > coalesce(c.n,0) as c, > coalesce(a.s,b.s,c.s) as s > from > ( select 1 as n, 0 as s) a full outer join > ( select 1 as n, 1 as s) b on (a.s=b.s) full outer join > ( select 2 as n, 2 as s) c on b.s = c.s; > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly