-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/22/07 19:04, Mark Walker wrote: > I'm not sure what you're trying to do but, it appears that you database > design is incorrect. What you need is something like > > CREATE TABLE temp_readings > ( > _date Date, > temperature double, > source varchar(20), > ) > > No reading, no record. Are you suggesting that you would have a weekly > set of records for each row? But you still need NULL/UNKNOWN for outer joins. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3kkVS9HxQb37XmcRAv7yAJ9Py3X/WGt+qe7R8WF1zyFIO38tNQCfZBaN GCWtuQ48h1dh5eTL5TSv0cA= =oFIk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----