|  | Posted by Jack Smith on 06/17/32 11:31 
Thank-you! One thing though if possible - can you repost your solution, but nest the brakets around the joins.
 
 Final thanks...
 Jack.
 
 "Steve Jorgensen" <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
 news:4a54n11jpod53n6k9n3j401knm7d90419v@4ax.com...
 > Since PERSON is on the many-side in both cases, it's easy.  basically,
 > this is
 > the case where you have several lookup values, each of which is optional.
 >
 > SELECT PERSON.Name, SIGN.StarSignName
 > FROM PERSON LEFT JOIN
 >     SIGN  ON PERSON.StarSign = SIGN.StarSign
 >     LEFT JOIN
 >     FOOD  ON PERSON.FavFood = FOOD.FavFood;
 >
 > (presumably, this is hypothetical, and I don't need to mention table/field
 > naming issues)
 >
 >
 > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 23:02:40 +0800, "Jack Smith" <jacksmith@nospam.co.uk>
 > wrote:
 >
 >>Hello,
 >>
 >>I want to be able to view data from 3 tables using the JOIN statement, but
 >>I'm not sure of how to do it. I think i don't know the syntax of the
 >>joins.I
 >>imagine this is easy for the experienced - but Im not.
 >>
 >>Allow me to explain:
 >>I have 2 Tables: PERSON and SIGN
 >>
 >>PERSON
 >>------
 >>PersonNo int (Primary Key)
 >>Name  varchar(50)
 >>StarSign int
 >>FavFood  int
 >>
 >>SIGN
 >>----
 >>StarSign int (Primary Key)
 >>StarSignName varchar(50)
 >>
 >>Relationship: SIGN has a one-to-many relationship with PERSON. The linking
 >>field is called 'StarSign'.
 >>
 >>Question 1:
 >>I want to display all the peoples names, and their star sign (whether they
 >>have one or not).
 >>Answer 1:
 >>SELECT PERSON.Name, SIGN.StarSignName
 >>FROM PERSON LEFT OUTER JOIN SIGN ON PERSON.StarSign = SIGN.StarSign;
 >>
 >>No problems there. But now I want to do the same thing, but have their
 >>favourite food displayed as well. So an additional table is needed:
 >>
 >>FOOD
 >>----
 >>FavFood  int (Primary Key)
 >>FavFoodName varchar(50)
 >>
 >>Relationship: FOOD has a one-to-many relationship with PERSON. The linking
 >>field is called 'FavFood'.
 >>
 >>Question 2:
 >>I want to display all the peoples names, their star signs  (whether they
 >>have one or not), and their favourite food (whether they have one or not).
 >>Answer 1:
 >>???
 >>
 >>I'm not sure what to do. Notice that I want to use an LEFT OUTER JOIN so
 >>ALL
 >>the rows from table PERSON will appear 'irrespective' of whether they have
 >>related records in the other tables.
 >>
 >>Jack.
 >>
 >
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