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But that doesn't make a log of sense to me.  And which row do you want? 
I'm thinking your data /layout /logic might need some rethinking, or at
least re-stating.  Your original post didn't seem to indicate this need.


On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:05, BjÃrn T Johansen wrote:
> Nope, I have already tried that one... But this one returns 0 rows when eg. stoptype
> = 2.. (it works ok when stoptype = 1 or null...) But I should get one row when
> stoptype = 2 as well, but then with null values from fields in the log_stop table...
> 
> I am not sure if this is possible, without writing a procedure or similar...
> 
> BTJ
> 
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > Then maybe:
> > 
> > AND (log_stop.stoptype=1 OR log_stop.stoptype IS NULL)
> > 
> > ??
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:55, BjÃrn T Johansen wrote:
> > 
> >>Nope... It returns 0 rows when there are no rows in log_stop with stoptype = 1...
> >>
> >>BTJ
> >>
> >>Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:24, BjÃrn T Johansen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I need a select like this..:
> >>>>
> >>>>select ordre.id, ordre.desc, log_stop.stoptype from ordre left outer join log_stop on
> >>>>ordre.id = log_stop.ordreid where ordre.id = 22
> >>>>
> >>>>The problem is that I need to include "where log_stop.stoptype = 1". So if log_stop
> >>>>includes 3 rows with stoptype = 1 and ordreid = 22, my select should return 3 rows.
> >>>>Also, if log_stop includes 3 rows with stoptype = 1 and 2 rows with stoptype = 2, my
> >>>>select should still return 3 rows. And if there are 0 rows with stoptype = 1, my
> >>>>select should return 1 row.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Would this work?
> >>>
> >>>select ordre.id, ordre.desc, log_stop.stoptype from ordre left outer join log_stop on
> >>>ordre.id = log_stop.ordreid where ordre.id = 22 AND COALESCE(log_stop.stoptype,1)=1
> >>>
> >>>
> 

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