Thanks Francois =)
I got past that now and I'm having a logical problem! :/
I have here 2 queries with their results. If you take a look at the
results you'll realize what the problem is. I've cut it short just to show
the incorrect fields.
Result 1:
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Username TotalReplies LastReply
-------- ------------ -------------------
BetaCeti 5 2001-04-04 00:00:00
BetaCeti 5 2001-04-04 00:00:00
BetaCeti 5 2001-04-04 00:00:00
BetaCeti 5 2001-04-04 00:00:00
BetaCeti 5 2001-04-04 00:00:00
Result 2:
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Username TotalReplies LastReply
-------- ------------ -------------------
BetaCeti 1 2001-02-02 00:00:00
NULL 0 NULL
NULL 0 NULL
NULL 0 NULL
NULL 0 NULL
As you can see, the first result gave the correct Username but nothing
else. The second one gave everything correct BUT the Username.
Here are the queries that produced these results.
Query 1:
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SELECT Messages.MessageID, Messages.DateOfPost, Messages.Subject,
Messages.Views, Users.Username, COUNT(Replies.ReplyID) AS TotalReplies,
MAX(Replies.DateOfPost) AS LastReply
FROM Messages
LEFT JOIN (Users INNER JOIN Replies ON Replies.UserID=Users.UserID)
ON Messages.UserID=Users.UserID
WHERE Messages.ForumID = 3
GROUP BY Messages.MessageID, Users.Username, Messages.DateOfPost,
Messages.Subject, Messages.Views
Query 2:
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SELECT Messages.MessageID, Messages.DateOfPost, Messages.Subject,
Messages.Views, Users.Username, COUNT(Replies.ReplyID) AS TotalReplies,
MAX(Replies.DateOfPost) AS LastReply
FROM Messages
LEFT JOIN (Replies INNER JOIN Users ON Replies.UserID=Users.UserID)
ON Messages.MessageID=Replies.MessageID
WHERE Messages.ForumID = 3
GROUP BY Messages.MessageID, Users.Username, Messages.DateOfPost,
Messages.Subject, Messages.Views
SQL can get confusing sometimes. Hope you can help!