I have a stored procedure that retrieves data from a number of tables. See below snippet of code. I need to retrieve all records from tbl_customer regardless of whether they appear in the tbl_vehicle or tbl_vehiclesupplment. my code throws up an error i havent seen before "ERROR 1013: Tables or functions 'tbl_vehicle' and 'tbl_vehicle' have the same exposed names. Use correlation names to distinguish them" select distinct tbl_customer.ccd_id, title,forename,surname, companyname,address_l1,address_l2, address_l3,address_l4,address_l5,town,county,postcode, make,model from tbl_customer left outer join tbl_vehicle on tbl_customer.ccd_id=tbl_vehicle.ccd_id, tbl_vehicle left outer join tbl_vehiclesupplement on tbl_vehicle.vehicle_id=tbl_vehiclesupplement.vehicle_id Any ideas?
You have a syntax error. It causes an extra join for table tbl_vehicle. select distinct tbl_customer.ccd_id, title,forename,surname, companyname,address_l1,address_l2, address_l3,address_l4,address_l5,town,county,postcode, make,model from tbl_customer left outer join tbl_vehicle on tbl_customer.ccd_id=tbl_vehicle.ccd_id , tbl_vehicle left outer join tbl_vehiclesupplement on tbl_vehicle.vehicle_id=tbl_vehiclesupplement.vehicle_id Bambola.
U try with the following query select distinct tbl_customer.ccd_id, title,forename,surname, companyname,address_l1,address_l2, address_l3,address_l4,address_l5,town,county,postcode, make,model from tbl_customer right outer join tbl_vehicle on tbl_customer.ccd_id=tbl_vehicle.ccd_id left outer join tbl_vehicle left outer join tbl_vehiclesupplement on tbl_vehicle.vehicle_id=tbl_vehiclesupplement.vehicle_id For more info ref outer joins - From tsql in Sql server books online. Thanks. Rushendra
I agree with Bambola. The query should be select distinct tbl_customer.ccd_id, title,forename,surname, companyname,address_l1,address_l2, address_l3,address_l4,address_l5,town,county,postcode, make,model from tbl_customer left outer join tbl_vehicle on tbl_customer.ccd_id=tbl_vehicle.ccd_id left outer join tbl_vehiclesupplement on tbl_vehicle.vehicle_id=tbl_vehiclesupplement.vehicle_id HTH. Gaurav
Also be sure to check that you really need the distinct, as performance will be improved if you c an remove it without affecting the result set.