When I tried your first (top) suggestion (in a bit modified form but almost the same as you have it) I get error:
"The multi-part identifier 'C1.COMP_PK' could not be bound"
What does it mean?
>Try
>
>select C1.*, C2.LASTNAME
> from COMPANY C1
> LEFT JOIN ( select top 1 LastName, comp_pk from
> CONTACT c3 WHERE C1.comp_pk = C3.comp_pk order by OrderNo ) C2 on C1.comp_pk = C2.comp_pk
>
>
>
>select C1.*,
> ( select top 1 LastName from CONTACT c3 WHERE C1.comp_pk = C3.comp_pk order by OrderNo ) AS LASTNAME
> from COMPANY C1
>
>
>
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