Question

This query works perfectly and creates my temporary table with all the necessary columns, but I also want it to include rows when column 3 is NULL (currently it only gives me rows when column 3 has data in it).

  SELECT column1
        ,column2
        ,column3
        ,column4
        ,column5
  FROM Table1 
  INNER JOIN Table2
  ON table1.column3 = table2.column3

I have tried different statements such as AND, OR, which did not work. It is possible that I simply did not apply the statement correctly as I am a beginner. Whenever I try something it either gives me 0 rows or hundreds of thousands more than it should.

Your help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You could use a LEFT JOIN to return all rows from Table1, even when there isn’t a match in Table2:

SELECT column1
    ,column2
    ,column3
    ,column4
    ,column5
FROM Table1 
LEFT JOIN Table2
ON table1.column3 = table2.column3