Hello, I have 3 tables which are joined that I need to create a summation for and I just cannot get this to work.
Here's an example: CREATE table1 ( id1 INTEGER, title1 VARCHAR ); INSERT INTO table1 (1, 'Heading #1'); INSERT INTO table1 (2, 'Heading #2'); CREATE table2 ( id1 INTEGER, id2 INTEGER, title2 VARCHAR ); INSERT INTO table2 (1, 1, 'Category #1.1'); INSERT INTO table2 (1, 2, 'Category #1.2'); INSERT INTO table2 (2, 1, 'Category #2.1'); INSERT INTO table2 (2, 2, 'Category #2.2'); CREATE table3 ( id1 INTEGER, id2 INTEGER, id3 INTEGER, title3 VARCHAR ); INSERT INTO table2 (1, 1, 1, 'Sub-Category #1.1.1'); INSERT INTO table2 (1, 1, 2, 'Sub-Category #1.1.2'); INSERT INTO table2 (1, 2, 1, 'Sub-Category #1.2.1'); INSERT INTO table2 (1, 2, 2, 'Sub-Category #1.2.2'); INSERT INTO table2 (2, 1, 1, 'Sub-Category #2.1.1'); INSERT INTO table2 (2, 1, 2, 'Sub-Category #2.1.2'); INSERT INTO table2 (2, 2, 1, 'Sub-Category #2.2.1'); INSERT INTO table2 (2, 2, 2, 'Sub-Category #2.2.2'); What I am trying to represent is some sort of hierarchical data here, for example: Heading #1 Category #1.1 Sub-Category #1.1.1 Sub-Category #1.1.2 Cateogry #1.2 Sub-Category #1.2.1 Sub-Category #1.2.2 Heading #2 Category #2.1 Sub-Category #2.2.1 Sub-Category #2.2.2 Cateogry #2.2 Sub-Category #2.2.1 Sub-Category #2.2.2 ... I hope that makes sense.. Perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way to begin with? In any event, the problem is now I have another table which uses these tables. For example: CREATE TABLE blech ( somedata VARCHAR, id1 INTEGER, id2 INTEGER, id3 INTEGER ); INSERT INTO TABLE blech ('Record #1', 1, 1, 1); INSERT INTO TABLE blech ('Record #2', 1, 1, 1); INSERT INTO TABLE blech ('Record #3', 1, 2, 1); INSERT INTO TABLE blech ('Record #4', 1, 1, 2); INSERT INTO TABLE blech ('Record #5', 2, 1, 1); ... etc... (NOTE: id1, id2, and id3 cannot be NULL in this table) What I want is a query that will give me this: count | id1 | id2 | id3 ------------------------------ 4 | 1 | | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 1 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 I've tried all manner of LEFT JOINs, GROUP BYs, and even tried using UNION, but I just can't seem to get the results I need. I'm definitely not married to this type of schema, if there is a more efficient way of handling this I'm all for it. Thanks as always! - Greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly