Limit a Left Join on the first table

Question

I have two tables: gems and gemdetail that are left joined. I am trying to limit the LEFT JOIN to 10 records in the gems table. There are 2 other tables joined (gemreply and use

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT g.gemid, g.title, r.tot, gemdetail.filename
FROM (SELECT * FROM gems WHERE grade = '7' LIMIT 10) g
LEFT JOIN (SELECT gemid, COUNT(*) AS tot FROM gemreply GROUP BY gemid) r
          ON r.gemid = g.gemid
LEFT JOIN gemdetail ON g.gemid = gemdetail.gemid
LEFT JOIN users ON g.userid = users.userid
ORDER BY g.gemid;

This should work.

Answer 2

Something like that

   SELECT * FROM A
      INNER JOIN ( SELECT * FROM A WHERE A.FIELD1='X' ORDER BY A.FIELD2 LIMIT 10) X
             ON (A.KEYFIELD=X.KEYFIELD)
      LEFT JOIN B ON (A.FIELD = B.FIELD)
      LEFT JOIN C ON (A.FIELD = C.FIELD)