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having trouble with my join statement

I'm working on a query that'll pull certain users, depending on certain criteria (such as what group, zone, etc they belong to). An user belongs to an ACCOUNT, which in turn belongs to other types of privileges. When I run the following query, I get the results I expect:

select acc.*   
FROM Accounts acc
	INNER JOIN PrivDefs pd ON acc.Privs = pd.Priv 
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Sites s ON acc.DefaultSiteID = s.SiteID AND acc.AdminID = s.AdminID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Groups g ON acc.DefaultGroupID = g.GroupID and acc.AdminID = g.AdminID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN AccountTemplateAddenda t ON acc.AccountID = t.AccountID
	INNER JOIN siteAccess sa ON acc.AccountID = sa.AccountID
where acc.adminID = 188 and
	  sa.SiteID = 826906
order by AccountID

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however, I want to grab some columns out of the USERS table. I have a cross reference table called UserAccountIDs that has an accountID and userID columns. So I figured a simple join on those two tables would get me what I want:

select acc.*,   u.userID, u.MostRecentVisitDate
FROM Accounts acc
	INNER JOIN PrivDefs pd ON acc.Privs = pd.Priv 
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Sites s ON acc.DefaultSiteID = s.SiteID AND acc.AdminID = s.AdminID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Groups g ON acc.DefaultGroupID = g.GroupID and acc.AdminID = g.AdminID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN AccountTemplateAddenda t ON acc.AccountID = t.AccountID
	INNER JOIN siteAccess sa ON acc.AccountID = sa.AccountID
	inner join UserAccountIDs ua on sa.accountID = ua.accountID 
	inner join Users u on u.userID = ua.userID
where acc.adminID = 188 and
	  sa.SiteID = 826906
order by AccountID

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however, I am only getting back about half of the records, with a lot of duplicates. This seems like it should be pretty straight-forward, but I can't seem to get the results I want.

arnold

Your select limits the response columns to acc.* account tanks only.

It is best to explicitly list the columns you are interested in.
Acc.column1,u.column3, etc.

Big Monty

ASKER

i understand that, i haven't gone through and decided on each column that I need yet. Regardless of that, I get different totals of rows returned when I add in the last 2 join statements, when I expect to get the same.

for what it's worth, I've tried specifying columns from both tables, but the results are the same.

arnold

You may need to use cte to overlay user with the results from these queries.

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Scott Pletcher

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Big Monty

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can you provide an example?

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arnold

;with cte
( your select query) as new_tablename
Select columns from new_tabname join users on new_tablename.userid=users.userid

Note you select query within cte need to be unique, or there might be referencing
I.e. Acc.userid ,...
I.e. Using explicit column references means you will not have duplicated information.

Big Monty

ASKER

the LEFT OUTER JOIN did the trick, my final query looks like:

select distinct (acc.AccountID), u.userID, u.MostRecentVisitDate
FROM Accounts acc
	INNER JOIN PrivDefs pd ON acc.Privs = pd.Priv 
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Sites s ON acc.DefaultSiteID = s.SiteID AND acc.AdminID = s.AdminID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Groups g ON acc.DefaultGroupID = g.GroupID and acc.AdminID = g.AdminID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN AccountTemplateAddenda t ON acc.AccountID = t.AccountID
	INNER JOIN siteAccess sa ON acc.AccountID = sa.AccountID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN UserAccountIDs ua on sa.accountID = ua.accountID 
	LEFT OUTER JOIN Users u on u.userID = ua.userID
where acc.adminID = 188 and
	  sa.SiteID = 826906
order by AccountID

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thx to both of you for the help!

arnold

Check out the with cte option for future use.