Hi,
I'd look into outer joins
I can do *part* of this with various JOINs, but the moment I specify
userid = 'paulf', I don't get the rows with NULLs
If you want all fields from one table and only those matching from another use outer join
HTH
Regards,
Serge Fonville
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks:
I can't find a way to do this purely with SQL. Any help would be
appreciated.
Table 1: urls
id | url
--------------
1 | alfa
2 | bravo
3 | charlie
4 | delta
Table 2: access
userid | url_id
---------------
paulf | 1
paulf | 2
nancyf | 2
nancyf | 3
The access table is related to the url table via url_id = id.
Here's what I want as a result of a query: I want all the records of the
url table, one row for each record, plus the userid field that goes with
it, for a specified user (paulf), with NULLs as needed, like this:
userid | url
-------------
paulf | alfa
paulf | bravo
| charlie
| delta
I can do *part* of this with various JOINs, but the moment I specify
userid = 'paulf', I don't get the rows with NULLs.
Again, any help would be appreciated.
Paul
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