Question

the following query brings a record for each time a recipecomments.RecipeID appears , i would just like to bring one record for each recipeID , group by recipeid does not seem to work

SELECT recipecomments.RecipeID
      ,recipecomments.CommentID 
      ,recipes.RecipeID
      ,recipes.Name
      ,recipes.CategoryID
      ,recipes.RatingTotal
      ,recipes.ImageMed
FROM recipecomments 
     JOIN recipes ON recipecomments.RecipeID = recipes.RecipeID                 
ORDER BY recipecomments.CommentID

Answer 1

If you’re grouping by recipeid, you need to decide which CommentID you want to show.
From your syntax, I’m guessing the highest.

 SELECT 
      recipecomments.RecipeID,
      MAX(recipecomments.CommentID),
      recipes.RecipeID,
      recipes.Name, 
      recipes.CategoryID,
      recipes.RatingTotal,
      recipes.ImageMed
 FROM recipecomments   
                JOIN recipes ON recipecomments.RecipeID = recipes.RecipeID 
 group by 
      recipecomments.RecipeID,
      recipes.RecipeID,
      recipes.Name, 
      recipes.CategoryID,
      recipes.RatingTotal,
      recipes.ImageMed