Question

I have two tables in a database. Table 1 includes an order number which could be NULL. Table two contains all order data (including the order number).

Now I want to select all columns from table 1 and all order data from table two. So if a certain entry in table one doesn’t contains this order number, all other columns should be null. But if it does contain an order number I want it to be linked to the second table and have these data selected.

Output should be something like:

column1tab1 column2tab1 order_number product amount
 xx            yy            123      p1      2
 xx            yy            456      p3      4
 xx            yy            NULL    NULL    NULL
 xx            yy            789      p2      1
 etc...

I tried different things, but I only get all the rows with an order number or all with null, but I can’t get them both at the same time. Does someone know a solution, so I can do this in one query?

Answer 1

what did you try? A simple left join would do the trick.
Example:

select *
from orders o left join orderdata od on o.orderId=od.orderid