David Frankenbach, you're my hero!
It works like a champ. I didn't realize that I could include secondary where conditions as part of the join statement. So I had moved the tbl1.field_name = 'padmis' down into my where clause.
At any rate, I now get a left outer join, exactly the way I wanted. Thanks again, man!
--Todd Sherman
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