>Hi,
>
>I sense this there is something real simply I am missing in the following SQL Select but I don't seem to be understand it.
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>I am trying to select one record from a Company table and one record from a Contact table (related to Company by column COMP_PK). But I get a NULL in column LASTNAME. Here is my SQL Select:
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>select C1.*, C2.LASTNAME from COMPANY C1 LEFT JOIN ( select top 1 LastName, comp_pk from 
>CONTACT order by OrderNo ) C2 on C1.comp_pk = C2.comp_pk where 1=1
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>
>What is wrong with my SQL Select?

Have you considered using a function to get the Contact information? That would avoid the headache of the join and would let you re-use that code for other queries.