Many thanks Peter. That's the definition I was after.

Kerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter K AGANYO [mailto:kimaiga@gmail.com]On Behalf Of Peter K AGANYO
Sent: 19 February 2007 00:35
To: kerry@myforefathers.co.uk
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: SELECT single row from 2 tables with WHERE clause


Hi Kerry,

Try this:

SELECT t1.*,t2.thedescription AS t2desc FROM table1 AS t1 LEFT JOIN table2
AS t2 ON t1.linkfield=t2.linkfield WHERE t1.lookup='ZZZZZ'

Without the WHERE condition this would return all 1000 rows of table 1
since "A Left join returns all rows of the left of the conditional even if
there is no right column to match." but t1.lookup='ZZZZZ' constrains this to
only the one row of table one with lookup equal to 'ZZZZZ'.

Enjoy

Peter


On 2/17/07, Kerry Frater <kerry@myforefathers.co.uk> wrote:
I am trying to select a particular row from a table and include a column
for
aq second table but I cannot get the result I am after.

I have "table1" with 1000 rows and "table2" with 12 rows. The
relationship
between the tables is a column "linkedfield". Table1 has a unique key
called
"lookup"

If I use the code
SELECT t1.*,t2.thedescription AS t2desc FROM table1 AS t1, table2 AS t2
where (t1.lookup='ZZZZZ')
I get a result of 12 rows (as expected)

SELECT t1.*,t2.thedescription AS t2desc FROM table1 AS t1, table2 AS t2
where (t1.linkfield=t2.linkfield)
I get 1000 rows as expected

SELECT t1.*,t2.thedescription AS t2desc FROM table1 AS t1, table2 AS t2
where (t1.lookup='ZZZZZ') and (t1.linkfield=t2.linkfield)
returns 1 row if there is an active link between the two tables and

returns 0 rows if there isn't.

This is where I am stuck. In the last example I would like the 1 row
whether
there is an "active" link or not. The difference will be simply that the
"t2desc" rsulting column will be blank or contain a value.

Can anyone help me with the logic?

Kerry