On Tue, 22 May 2007 kvnsmnsn@cs.byu.edu wrote:
> I've got three tables, <jqz>, <zqj>, and <abc>. I can do a
> <jqz j RIGHT JOIN zqj z> and a <zqj z LEFT JOIN abc a>, but is there a
> way to do a three-way join to get the columns of all three tables? Of
> course I could do one of those former two joins and then join the out-
> put table to the third table, but is there a way to do it without cre-
> ating the intermediate table?
>
> I tried:
>
> SELECT
> j.abc, j.def, z.xyz, a.ghi
> FROM
> jqz j RIGHT JOIN zqj z LEFT JOIN abc a
> ON
> j.abc = z.abc AND z.xyz = a.xyz;
I think you'd want something like
(jqz j RIGHT JOIN zqj z ON j.abc=z.abc) LEFT JOIN abc a ON (z.xyz=a.xyz)
