[development] SQL question.

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi,

I have been trying to work out a small sql issue, and I was wondering if
someone might be able to help me.

Basically I have 2 tables and I was to do a left join and pull out all
rows which has a value in the right hand table or doesn't exist.

eg.

SELECT a.a, a.b, b.a, b.c FROM a LEFT JOIN b ON a.a = b.a WHERE b.c =
'A';

So basically I want it to return.

a	b	a	c
1	1	null	null
2	2	2	A

etc.

Or do I need to 2 selects and merge them. When I do this now I get more
of an inner join instead of a left join. I am not sure how I say "or
doesn't exist".

Thanks in advance.
Gordon.