First match? There's only 1 match, so I don't know where first comes into it.

Each record in sowgts has
* a skid in soskid
* a sales order in somast
* a line item in sotran
* a customer in arcust
* an address in soaddr
* a highest numbered skid in highskid
* a net weight in netwts

I just want to put all of this info into the same record. What would I group by? There's no groups?

Thanks,

Michelle


>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.
>>
>>

>>   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
>>

>>
>>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?