LEFT OUTER will give the records in the sowgts table even if they don't have a match in some of the other tables. If this is what you want, LEFT OUTER is ok.

Vlad

>Ok, I figured it out. I was right in the first place with using all LEFT OUTER JOINs. The problem was that I only had one part of a two part key on sotran.
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>Thanks, both of you.
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>>If there is only one match in all the child tables, then a INNER JOIN should get you only one record per record in sowgts.
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>>>First match? There's only 1 match, so I don't know where first comes into it.
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>>>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
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>>>I just want to put all of this info into the same record. What would I group by? There's no groups?