There is no join condition that will give you only the first match of the child table. You will need a GROUP BY of some sort.

HTH

>I'm trying to figure out what kind of joins to use here.
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>   FROM sowgts ;
>       ????? JOIN soskid ON sowgts.skidkey = soskid.skidkey ;
>       ????? JOIN somast ON sowgts.sono = somast.sono  ;
>       ????? JOIN sotran ON somast.sono = sotran.sono ;
>       ????? JOIN arcust ON sotran.custno = arcust.custno ;
>       ????? JOIN soaddr ON somast.sono = soaddr.sono ;
>       ????? JOIN highskid ON soskid.bolno = highskid.bolno ;
>       ????? JOIN netwts ON soskid.skidkey = netwts.skidkey
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>For each record in sowgts, I want one record in the final product. I tried all LEFT OUTERs, but I ended up with a bunch of records. What kind of joins should I use to get one record?