>>>>If you would add a WHERE condition on the columns from the child table, it'll kill LEFT JOIN and it'll be like INNER JOIN.
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>>>>>Thanks Sergey. I thought that was correct. Something else was causing issues with the result.
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>>>Thats correct I had done that.
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>>>I have a table of parameters that I added to the select.
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>>I have a blog on this exact topic, take a look
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>>Why LEFT JOIN does not bring all records from the LEFT table
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>That's a very nicely done blog post, Naomi ( and a reminder I should make it a point to read your blog more often as I may save me some time. )

Thanks, Charles, glad you like it. I have more blogs on this site
http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/All/

and there are some really good blogs on that site (not mine). You can check them in your leisure time.