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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:59:59 -0400
From: Carol Cheung <cacheung@consumercontact.com>
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Subject: left outer join on more than 2 tables?
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Hi,
I have 3 tables

region:
id
region_name

city:
id
city_name
region_id

complaint:
id
date
city_id

I would like to find the counts of complaints by region and I would like 
all regions to be displayed, regardless of whether or not complaints 
exist for that region. Is left outer join what I'm looking for?
I'm stuck at this point:
select r.region_name, count(1) from region r left outer join city c, 
complaint k on (k.city_id = c.id and r.id = c.region_id) group by 
r.region_name
Of course this doesn't work ...
Can anyone provide their insight as to how I can achieve this?

Thanks in advance,
C