Re: Building a "complex" select?

Nope... It returns 0 rows when there are no rows in log_stop with stoptype = 1...

BTJ

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:24, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>
>>I need a select like this..:
>>
>>select ordre.id, ordre.desc, log_stop.stoptype from ordre left outer join log_stop on
>>ordre.id = log_stop.ordreid where ordre.id = 22
>>
>>The problem is that I need to include "where log_stop.stoptype = 1". So if log_stop
>>includes 3 rows with stoptype = 1 and ordreid = 22, my select should return 3 rows.
>>Also, if log_stop includes 3 rows with stoptype = 1 and 2 rows with stoptype = 2, my
>>select should still return 3 rows. And if there are 0 rows with stoptype = 1, my
>>select should return 1 row.
>
>
> Would this work?
>
> select ordre.id, ordre.desc, log_stop.stoptype from ordre left outer join log_stop on
> ordre.id = log_stop.ordreid where ordre.id = 22 AND COALESCE(log_stop.stoptype,1)=1
>
>