>Hi all
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>I have parent-child tables. The child table can have 0 or more records for each parent record.
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>I need to write an SQL where in each row I get a parent record and an either a NULL fields for the child table or only these 1st child record (no multiple occurrence of the parent record due to multiple child recs.), for each and every parent record.
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>Please let me know how I can go about this.

SELECT *
 , (select top 1 field from child WHERE fk_Parent=Parent.pk order by fk_Parent) as child_field 
   FROM Parent