Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am working on an application that needs to retireve data from two tables and meld them into one dataset. The two tables are tblPhysicians and tblSpecialists. tblPhysicians has a field License_Number that corresponds to NumericLicenseNumber in tblSpecialists. I want to retrieve the fields First_Name and Last_Name from tblPhysicians and Email address and Specialty from tblSpecialsits for each of the rows in tblSpecialists. I ahve tried numerous ways of joing the tables without success. Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

SELECT P.First_Name, P.Last_Name, S.email, S.specialty
FROM tblPhysicians AS P, tblSpecialists AS S
WHERE P.License_Number = S.License_Number

My guess is that your problem is that you now get And what you really *want* is probably something like
Or something along those lines. (Though why you would put email address into the specialty table instead of into the main physicians table is beyond me.)

So your problem has nothing to do with the JOIN, it has to do with *PRESENTATION* of the results. You mentioned "dataset", so I would guess you are using ASP.NET.

In any case, if the problem isn't just the join, re-post with some real details.

Thanks for the assistance. Unfortunately, it is not a presentation issue, rather an issue with joining the tables. Here is where I am at:

SELECT tblFloridaPhysicians.First_Name, tblFloridaPhysicians.Last_Name, tblGastroenterology3.email
FROM tblFloridaPhysicians AS P, tblGastroenterology3 AS S
WHERE tblFloridaPhysicians.License_Number = tblGastroenterology3.License_Number

When I run the query, it returns 1252 items. tblGastroenterology3 has a total of 1525 items, all of which SHOULD be in the 60,000 records in tblFloridaPhysicians (not exactly sure how to query to determine this). So I'm not sure if this is simply records that don't correspond or the query not working correctly.

Thanks again for the assistance.

I'd guess that the records don't correspond.

License_number's in Gastroenterology that are out of date or from other states or mistyped or who knows what.

You can easily determine which are the problem children with another SQL query.

The simplest form:
You can of course SELECT just some of the fields instead of using * to get all of them.

That should give you 273 records (if your numbers and my math are correct). That's a lot, so good luck sorting this mess out! Because it must surely be a real mess.

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p.s.: If you find that the mistake is something consistent (e.g., a prefix or suffix on the License_Number in the gastro table that is not in the main table, or vice versa, then we could figure out an expression to use in the JOIN that would pick them all up, most likely. So look hard to see if you can find a pattern in the mistakes/missing License_Numbers.