Thank you for the reply tlbroadbent!
Unfortunately it brings back too much. There is criteria for the table1 ("Author"). Adding this criteria ("LastName = 'Wilson'") then makes the query:
SELECT a.FirstName, a.LastName, b.BookTitle, b.Year
FROM Author AS a
LEFT JOIN Book...
Thank you Quehay and dalchri. I appreciate the time to look at my problem.
I have found several multi-query solutions, although dalchri's is a new one to me. I don't fully understand why it does work, but I'll be studying it more to find out. Thankfully, time was not an issue on this (only a...
if it helps other people, here is what I want:
I have 2 tables, "Author" and "Book"
the contents of the Author table:
SSN FirstName LastName
111111111 Adam Wilson
222222222 Emily Wilson
333333333 Arthur Jones
444444444 Syed Karimushan
555555555 Alexandra Wilson
the...
I feel your pain, and unfortunately I haven't found the answer anywhere. The left join acts like an inner join when you have criteria in the right table, and that's just not what we want! If you do find an elegant solution, could you please post here? I found a round about way using a...
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