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Struggling with left outer join

Im struggling with the join definition in IDT (Newbie…)

I join 2 tables which both have a “Clientid” so i join on that field.

I check the box under table 1 (should be a left join?) and then look at hte comlumn values to see
whether it works (which it doesnt…)

What i get is when i mark both the Clientid and the surnames,
is 200 unique ClientID’s and only 1 unique surname.

If i check the box under table 2, i get 16 unique surnames and only one unique Clientid.

What i’m looking for is to get (in this case) 200 unique Clientis’s AND 16 Unique surnames.

I expect it to work as a left outer join but for some reason it doesnt seem to work like that?

Does anyone else has this fenomenom where a left outer join behaves like an inner join?


tantetruus (BOB member since 2008-11-11)

I suggest writing the code manually, getting the results fine tuned in a query too and then create a derived table with the already perfected code.

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make sure both of the “Clientid”-fields are of the same type and format