help - JOIN problem

note: I also posted this in mailing.database.sql-general

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Hi all,
I have 3 tables; USER, ACCESS_PATH, and ACCESS (All of the
generation scripts are at the end). USER contains users information,
ACCESS_PATH contains a URL and an ID, and ACCESS contains USER ids and
ACCESS ids
I am basically trying to adminster my home website with access
levels. So user1 can see some stuff, and user2 can see some other
stuff, while I (admin) can see everything.
Here's my problem I'd like to have a query that does a left join on
the cartesian product of USER and ACCESS, thus showing me what users
do and do not have access to, so when a NULL value comes up for some
column ex:
'enabled', the user does not have access otherwise they do.

Any help appreciated,
Keith

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if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =
object_id(N'[dbo].[FK_ACCESS_ACCESS_PATH]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id,
N'IsForeignKey') = 1)
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS] DROP CONSTRAINT FK_ACCESS_ACCESS_PATH
GO

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =
object_id(N'[dbo].[FK_ACCESS_USER]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id,
N'IsForeignKey') = 1)
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS] DROP CONSTRAINT FK_ACCESS_USER
GO

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =
object_id(N'[dbo].[ACCESS]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') =
1)
drop table [dbo].[ACCESS]
GO

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =
object_id(N'[dbo].[ACCESS_PATH]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id,
N'IsUserTable') = 1)
drop table [dbo].[ACCESS_PATH]
GO

if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =
object_id(N'[dbo].[USER]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1)
drop table [dbo].[USER]
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS] (
[user_id] [int] NOT NULL ,
[access_id] [int] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS_PATH] (
[access_id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[path] [varchar] (256) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[USER] (
[user_id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[fname] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,
[lname] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_ACCESS] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[user_id],
[access_id]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS_PATH] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_ACCESS_PATH] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[access_id]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[USER] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_USER] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[user_id]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ACCESS] ADD
CONSTRAINT [FK_ACCESS_ACCESS_PATH] FOREIGN KEY
(
[access_id]
) REFERENCES [dbo].[ACCESS_PATH] (
[access_id]
),
CONSTRAINT [FK_ACCESS_USER] FOREIGN KEY
(
[user_id]
) REFERENCES [dbo].[USER] (
[user_id]
)
GO