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Jul 5, 2004

I have a MSDE query that includes a "left outer join..." clause. It runs fine in MSDE Query (a 3rd party GUI tool) and produces 12 rows. column 3 has some NULL values (because of the outer join).





But when I use the same query in an ASP.NET page, and display the result in a datagrid, it only displays 7 rows - the rows with the NULL value in column 3 do not display.





Is there a parameter somewhere in datagrid or dataset that I should be setting?





thank you someone!

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SQL-92 Outer Join Vs T-SQL Outer Join (6.5 Or 7.0) - Test Script Included

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Take the following scenario:

We have two tables that have somewhat of a parent-child relationship. We are trying to use a SQL-92 outer join that returns the same results as a TSQL *= outer join. The difficulty we are having is that some of the parent records do not have any corresponding child records, but we still want to see those parent records with 0 (zero) for the count. How can we accomplish this with a SQL-92 compliant join (if it is even possible)? In the query results below, we would like the first set of results.

Thanks in advance for any help.
-David Edelman

Test script below, followed by results
===========================================
create table parent (p_id int NOT NULL)
go
create table child (p_id int NOT NULL, c_type varchar(6) NULL)
go
insert parent values (1)
insert parent values (2)
insert parent values (3)
insert parent values (4)
insert parent values (5)
insert parent values (6)
insert parent values (7)
insert parent values (8)
insert parent values (9)
insert parent values (10)
go

insert child values (1, 'AAA')
insert child values (1, 'BBB')
insert child values (1, 'CCC')
insert child values (2, 'AAA')
insert child values (4, 'AAA')
insert child values (4, 'DEF')
insert child values (4, 'AAA')
insert child values (4, 'BBB')
insert child values (5, 'AAA')
insert child values (5, 'AAA')
insert child values (6, 'AAA')
insert child values (7, 'AAA')
insert child values (7, 'BBB')
insert child values (7, 'CCC')
insert child values (7, 'DDD')
insert child values (10, 'AAA')
insert child values (10, 'CCC')
go

select p.p_id, count(c.p_id) as num_rows
from parent p, child c
where p.p_id *= c.p_id
and c.c_type in ('AAA', 'BBB')
group by p.p_id

select p.p_id, count(c.p_id) as num_rows
from parent p left outer join child c on p.p_id = c.p_id
where c.c_type in ('AAA', 'BBB')
group by p.p_id

=========================================
Results:
(T-SQL *= outer join)
p_id num_rows
----------- -----------
1 2
2 1
3 0
4 3
5 2
6 1
7 2
8 0
9 0
10 1

(SQL-92 outer join)
Warning: Null value eliminated from aggregate.
p_id num_rows
----------- -----------
1 2
2 1
4 3
5 2
6 1
7 2
10 1

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Why do we need a Right outer join, when we get the same results by swapping the order in which tables are specified in a Left join?

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Outer Join Help

Apr 21, 2004

Ok....I have 3 tables.

Entity
--------
name
entity_key

Address
----------
street
zip
mailing_flag
entity_key

Phone
--------
phone_number
phone_type_key
entity_key


I want to see all of the Entity records with their corresponding Address and Phone records. (select e.name, a.street, a.zip, p.phone_number)But only show the Address record for that Entity if the mailing_flag is 'Y' and I only want to see the Top 1 Phone record where the phone_type_key = 'Home'. If the above criteria isn't met I just want to see nulls for the Address and Phone records.

My problem is getting ALL the Entity records to return. It only wants to give me the Entity records that have Address or Phone associated with them. That and somehow showing the Top 1 phone record for the Entity are my issues.

Any help would be much appreciated......Thanks!

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How And Where Do I Add My Outer Join?

Apr 11, 2008

Hello,

I have the following script which is *sort of working* !!

The problem I have is that I need to add an outer join to one of the tables and I don't know where to add it or what the syntax is.

Basically, anyone who has an 'STRA' role in the contacts_roles table does not usually have an email address (shown as communications.notes). However, because I don't have any outer joins in place, the script is ignoring everyone who has an 'STRA' role and only pulling back those with an 'STRE' role.

Any help would be much appreciated as to how and where I put my outer join.

Thanks so much.

Jon



SELECT contacts.label_name, contact_positions.position, contact_roles.role, contact_roles.organisation_number, communications.notes, organisations.status, organisations.name, addresses.address, addresses.town, addresses.county, addresses.postcode
FROM bmf.dbo.addresses addresses, bmf.dbo.communications communications, bmf.dbo.contact_positions contact_positions, bmf.dbo.contact_roles contact_roles, bmf.dbo.contacts contacts, bmf.dbo.organisations organisations
WHERE contact_roles.contact_number = contacts.contact_number AND communications.contact_number = contacts.contact_number AND organisations.organisation_number = contact_roles.organisation_number AND addresses.address_number = organisations.address_number AND contact_positions.contact_number = contacts.contact_number AND contact_positions.organisation_number = organisations.organisation_number AND ((contact_roles.role In ('STRE','STRA')) AND (organisations.status In ('BRAN','FULL','HOLD')))
ORDER BY organisations.name

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Jun 20, 2008

Help!
I have a query that runs fine with 2 outer joins, but I am using "*=" syntax and this won't work for SQL 2005.

I am replacing with 'LEFT OUTER JOIN'... I can get it to work okay for first join, but not when I add the second

Any idea


Josephine

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Jun 30, 2006

Hi i am having problem getting a resultset in a specific format which i wanted

i am suppose to get this:

team_id|Student|student_not_yet_submitted
Team 1|A,B,C|A
Team 2|D,E,F|NULL

Where (team_id, student) and student_not_yet_submitted are from different tables. Issue of concatenating aside (i am able to do this with java loop), I derived them like this:

1st select=select team_id, student_name from team, student where (....) to get the 1st 2 columns.

To get the 3rd column,
my second select is the same as 1st select but it has an additional condition based on results from 1st select stmt (using the team_id passed in)

2nd select=select team_id, student_name from team where (..... and student_name not in (a 3rd query stmt with result based on team_id from 1st select statement))

i am trying to use left outer join on student_name to join the 2 stmt together, but i am stuck because the 2nd select statement (or rather the 3rd inner query) requires input from the 1st. is there a more efficient way of doing this?

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Mar 6, 2008

Below is my query. I am a relative novice to SQL. I'd like to rewrite this with joins. All should be inner joins except for the last one Aritem to shmast. That should be a left outer join because not all of our invoices (in the Aritem tables) have actually been shipped.

How would I do this? I have already read through 2 SQL books, but the examples they give are much simpler than what I need to do. Here's the Query:

SELECT DISTINCT Ardist.fcacctnum, Ardist.fcrefname, Ardist.fccashid,
Ardist.fcstatus, Armast.fcinvoice, Armast.fbcompany, Armast.fcustno,
Ardist.fddate, Ardist.fnamount * -1 as fnAmount,
glmast.fcdescr,
shmast.fcstate,
slcdpm.fcompany as CompanyName
FROM ardist, glmast, armast, slcdpm, shmast, aritem
WHERE Glmast.fcacctnum = Ardist.fcacctnum
AND Armast.fcinvoice = SUBSTRING(Ardist.fccashid,8,20)
AND Ardist.fnamount <> 0
AND ((Ardist.fcrefname = 'INV' OR Ardist.fcrefname = 'CRM' OR Ardist.fcrefname = 'VOID')
AND Glmast.fccode = 'R')
AND armast.fcustno = slcdpm.fcustno
AND armast.fcinvoice = aritem.fcinvoice
AND left(aritem.fshipkey,6) = shmast.fshipno

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Mar 30, 2008

what is difference between inner join and outer join also right and left join can you explain with simple example(because i m fresher) and the query which are there in previous forum will work for the mainframe environment?

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