My bad -- I visually parsed that as part of the SQL statement. -- Joe On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Pete wrote: > Hey, Joe, as I read the original, I thought, great, we have all the > details we need for once... <G> > > He did say > >> Message d'erreur : Unknown column 'a.type_id' in 'on clause' > > 1) You have create_date rather than creation_date > 2) The tables are in the wrong order for a JOIN - in the FROM > section, I > have swapped a c for c a > > SELECT > a.name, > a.type_id, > b.title, > b.description, > b.content_date, > b.creation_date, > b.created_by, > b.last_upd_date, > b.last_upd_by, > c.name as dept_name, > content_id > FROM Department c, > Content_Type a > LEFT OUTER JOIN Content b > on a.type_id = b.content_type > and a.type_id = b.content_type > and b.dept_id = 3 > and b.content_type = 4 > WHERE c.dept_id = 3 > ORDER BY content_date DESC > > And I get 4 records returned. > > They may not be the right ones, but... > -- > Pete Clark > > Hot Costa - Local Spain > http://www.hotcosta.com > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]