>>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>>I am trying to limit LEFT JOIN to select only one record. By design the child table should have only one record but I ran into a case where user had two records (wrong but it happens). And when two records are selected the entire resulting query is wrong. So, for example, say I have the following query:
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>>>>>>select .... from Table1 left join Table2 on Table1.pk_field = Table2.pk_field
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>>>>>>How can I change (if possible) the ON expression so that if Table2 has more than one record that matches the Table1.pk_field, only one is selected? (It does not matter to me which one). TIA.
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>>>>>SELECT TOP 1 ... ORDER BY Table1.pk_field
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>>>>I cannot change the SELECT part of my query (if understand your suggestion correctly). That is, the SELECT part (before FROM) involves many fields. Unless you mean that SELECT TOP 1 can be part of the LEFT JOIN expression.
>>>>Thank you.
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>>>Why can't you change 'SELECT' to 'SELECT TOP 1' ?
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>>As I mentioned to Naomi, I was showing the case simplified. The resulting query can have more than one record (there is another LEFT JOIN that I didn't mention). But if this LEFT JOIN that I mentioned pulls not 1 but 2 records, then the resulting query has double the number of records. You see what I mean?
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>That's not what you originally asked

I probably didn't express it correctly. I want to make sure that only one record is joined with this particular LEFT JOIN. But I can see from the discussion here that maybe this is not possible.