Question

I am looking for a way to perform multiple joins from one source table to more than one table. Similar to the following:

SELECT a.NAME, b.address, c.phone
FROM tblname a
LEFT JOIN tbladdress b ON a.nid = b.nid

I also want to perform a left join on the Telephone table tblPhone at the same time:

tblname a left join tblPhone c on a.PID = c.PID

Try as I might I can’t see how to put this into one query.

Answer 1

You can simply repeat your JOIN clauses as many times as is needed, e.g.:

SELECT a.NAME
    ,b.address
    ,c.phone
FROM tblname a
LEFT JOIN tbladdress b ON a.nid = b.nid
LEFT JOIN tblPhone c ON a.PID = c.PID