>>>>>>>Does it make sense?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You need a simple LEFT JOIN, e.g.

>>>>>>select Cust.ID, Cust.Name, T.Descr as TypeDescr
>>>>>>from Customer cust LEFT JOIN Types T ON Cust.Type_ID = T.Descr

>>>>>
>>>>>I tried it. LEFT JOIN creates a query where you have as many records for each record in CUSTOMER as there are TYPEs. Didn't work for me.
>>>>
>>>>Something doesn't make sense here.
>>>>
>>>>If type_ID in the Customer table is an FK and Type_ID in the Types table is primary key, then LEFT JOIN should only bring one row per customer with the type description.
>>>>
>>>>May be Type_ID is not the primary key in the Types table?
>>>
>>>Correct. See my reply to Rob.
>>
>>I saw the reply. So, which one of the descriptions per "type_id" do you want? Why do you allow duplicates in that lookup table? Sounds like a bad design.
>
>What if I wanted (since I don't have time to resolve the "bad" design) to show DESCR for the TOP record in the TYPE table. Could I do it with SUBQUERY?

select cust.*, T.typeDescr from Customer cust ;
left join (select type_id, min(descr) as typedescr from Types group by Type_ID) T ON cust.type_id = T.type_id