thank you for explaining this to me Amit. It works. Ron The Verse of the Day âEncouragement from Godâs Wordâ http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info From: Amit Tandon Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 5:49 AM To: Ron Piggott Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: COUNT and OUTER JOIN results Dear Ron Take your condition to ON cluause. So your on clause (for LEFT JOIN) would read something like ON `prayer_request_category`.` reference` = `prayer_requests`.`prayer_request_category_reference` AND `prayer_requests`.`approval_ level` IN ( 1, 3 ) `prayer_requests`.`prayer_request_type` = 1 ============ regds amit "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: The following query returns all 8 prayer request categories with the total # of requests every submitted to each category: SELECT `prayer_request_category`.`reference` , `prayer_request_category`.`category` , COUNT( `prayer_requests`.`reference` ) AS category_request_count FROM `prayer_request_category` LEFT OUTER JOIN `prayer_requests` ON `prayer_request_category`.`reference` = `prayer_requests`.`prayer_request_category_reference` GROUP BY `prayer_request_category`.`reference` ORDER BY `prayer_request_category`.`category` ASC I would like to add the following 2 WHERE conditions to this query so only the live prayer requests are included in the COUNT: `prayer_requests`.`approval_level` IN ( 1, 3 ) `prayer_requests`.`prayer_request_type` = 1 When I do this only the categories with live prayer requests are returned, instead of all 8 categories. Is there a way to build these WHERE conditions which will still allow all 8 categories to be included in the result? Thank you, Ron The Verse of the Day âEncouragement from Godâs Wordâ http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
