Question

I have this really simple query. I am unable to figure out why my query is not returning null records.

SELECT table1.name, table2.name 
FROM table 
LEFT OUTER JOIN table2 
ON table1.id = table2.id 
WHERE table1.someid='2' 
AND table2.someid=2 
ORDER BY table1.order

I also tried using LEFT JOIN, JOIN, INNER JOIN, FULL OUTER JOIN gives an error.

This simple query returns all required values.

SELECT table1.name 
FROM table 
WHERE table1.someid='2' 
ORDER BY table1.order

Answer 1

whatever you will put in the where clause will force the resultsets to return the rows from the affected table.

In your case you are asking for table2.someid=2, which for mysql means that table2 MUST return a row, with or without a left join.

Solution: use this filter within the left join instead of the where clause