Dang it.

Now who do I give the 3 stars to? and who gets the 1 star? rofl
They are both what I needed.

Thank you both, Naomi and Rich.

>>Hi All,
>>
>>We have a table that holds all of our addresses (address_id), we have an other table that holds 3 references for that address table, the main address, the early address and the late address (address_id, am_address_id, and pm_address_id)
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>>We need to get all the addresses stored in the people table (address_id, am_address_id, and pm_address_id) with the full address info.
>>
>>We need it to be ANSI complinat because this could go to a SQL back-end, and VFP back-end or and other db back-end.
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>>Can this be done?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Beth
>
>Would something like

>SELECT people.*,ad.*,am.*,pm.* ;
>  FROM people ;
>  LEFT OUTER JOIN address ON people.address_id = address.addres_id;
>  LEFT OUTER JOIN address am ON people.am_address_id = am.address_id;
>  LEFT OUTER JOIN address pm ON people.pm_address_id = pm.address_id

>do the trick?