sql question - outer join seems not to work

Question

using: sql server

Here is what I am trying to accomplish. I have two tables one with 70 companies (company info, etc) and one table recording the incident numbers of tho

Answer 1

If the WHERE clause is against the outer table in the JOIN, it effectively makes the JOIN an INNER JOIN (this is actually a very common mistake). It's hard to tell which table your WHERE clause criteria works against, since you don't qualify the tables.

However, my guess is you need to make the WHERE clauses a condition of the JOIN. Something like this:

SELECT 
    count(*) AS total_num, 
    TS_NAME 
FROM 
    TTS_INCIDENTS 
    LEFT OUTER JOIN TS_COMPANIES ON 
        TS_COMPANIES.TS_ID=TTS_INCIDENTS.TS_COMPANYID 
        AND TS_ACTIVEINACTIVE = 0 AND (TS_INCIDENTTYPE=10 OR TS_INCIDENTTYPE=11) 
GROUP BY 
    TS_NAME 
ORDER BY 
    TS_NAME