OUTER LEFT JOINs On SQL CE

Hi,

First of all, is this an appropriate place to get answers related to SQL CE? If not, do you have any recomended forums elsewhere?

I'm trying to get a list of various related tables using ResultSets on SQLCE 3. The query is something like this:

SELECT A.*
, F.Descricao AS FamiliasDescricao
, M.Descricao AS MarcasDescricao
, I.Descricao AS IVADescricao
FROM Artigos AS A
LEFT OUTER JOIN Familias AS F ON A.FamiliasUID = F.UID
LEFT OUTER JOIN Marcas AS M ON A.MarcasUID = M.UID
LEFT OUTER JOIN IVA AS I ON A.IVAUID = I.UID
INNER JOIN ArtigosTipos AS AT ON A.ArtigosTiposUID = AT.UID;

The column ArtigosTiposUID cannot be NULL, so an INNER JOIN is used, but the other UID columns can have a NULL value, and I need all the rows on Artigos to show up even if these other UIDs are NULL. The query runs fine like this in VS2005, returning NULL values for the columns if there are no rows on the other tables, both on the SQL Server 2005 database and the .sdf database used on the Windows Mobile device. But on Windows Mobile SQL CE gives me an "Unspecified error [7]", Native error 25607, an the stack trace ends with:

em System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeCommand.ProcessResult s()
em System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeCommand.CompileQueryP lan()
em System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeCommand.ExecuteComman d()
em System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeCommand.ExecuteResult Set()

If I replace all the LEFT OUTER JOINs with INNER JOINs only the rows where all UIDs have a value show up, but as I said, I want all rows on tabela Artigos. Even if I remove all JOINs except the last one and replace it with a LEFT OUTER JOIN I get the same erro, all rows having the column ArtigosTiposUID defined... it seems as if the simple presence of LEFT OUTER JOIN makes SQL CE return an error.

Is there a way to run the queries on VS using the SQL CE engine so that one can check whether the query will run successfuly on Windows Mobile?

Any other sugestions?

Thank you,
Hugo Lopes