Re: left outer join on more than 2 tables?

At the risk of being wrong.... (I'm always ready to learn something
new) - and seemingly I'm only too happy to be wrong!...

And... it might even be that it is exactly the same result - but I
would have proposed;

SELECT
R.region_name,
Count(*) AS RegionComplaints
FROM
Region AS R
LEFT JOIN City AS Ci
LEFT JOIN Complaint AS Cm ON Ci.id = Cm.city_id
ON R.id = C.region_id
GROUP BY
R.region_name;

Gavin.

On 17/06/2009, at 7:25 AM, Richard Broersma wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Carol
> Cheung<cacheung(at)consumercontact(dot)com> wrote:
>> I would like to find the counts of complaints by region and I would
>> like all
>> regions to be displayed, regardless of whether or not complaints
>> exist for
>> that region. Is left outer join what I'm looking for?
>
> SELECT R.region_name, Count(*) AS RegionComplaints
> FROM Region AS R
> LEFT JOIN City AS Ci
> ON R.id = C.region_id
> LEFT JOIN Complaint AS Cm
> ON Ci.id = Cm.city_id
> GROUP BY R.region_name;
>
>
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