Dear Kind Forum members, I am stumped with trying to make the table joins and query as seen in the attached image. I am at a total lost at what to do. I tried making left joins for all the tables, but when I try to write the query output, the rows seem to double or triple. For example, if I try to use the cfoutput to display the toppings for B_ID 1, it would show "Mayo, Ketchup, Mustard" x 3 becuase the Ingredient table had 3 records of having the B_ID that is being used to join all the tables. Or if, the B_ID only had 1 Topping row in the Topping table, but the same B_ID had 4 Ingredients in the Ingredient table, when I display the cfoutput for the Topping for that B_ID, it will show the same answer repeated 4 times becuase that B_ID had 4 Ingredients in the Ingerdient table. I am not sure if I am making my question clear. I have attached s diagram to try to make my question clearer. Thank you very very much for anyone who can show me the light. I will be very grateful.
I may not be too clear, and so will try to describe the issue here: I have 3 tables. Table 1 named "T_Questions" Question_ID(Pk) Questions Burger_ID(FK) 1 How Much? 1 2 Has Seasoning? 1 3 Type of Bread? 1 4 Where is Spock? 3 5 What Bread? 3 6 What Sauce? 3 HTML: Table 2 named "T_Comments" Comments_ID(Pk) Comments Burger_ID(FK) 1 Too Fatty 1 2 Too Small 2 3 Perfect Taste! 1 4 Too Big 1 5 Too Slim! 2 6 Too Spacey! 3 HTML: Table 3 named "T_BurgerOrder" Burger_ID(Pk) Burger_Name OrderName 1 Mighty Joe Burger Jerry 2 Slim Jim Burger Florence 3 Startreck Burger Jerry HTML: This is how I joined the tables: <cfquery datasource="#DS#" name="MyBurgers"> SELECT * FROM t_BurgerOrder LEFT JOIN t_Questions ON T_BurgerOrder.Burger_ID = t_Questions.Burger_ID LEFT JOIN T_Comments ON T_BurgerOrder.Burger_ID = T_Comments.Burger_ID Where OrderName = "Jerry" </CFQuery> This is the simple code on the page to test my output format. <cfoutput query="MyBurgers" Group="Burger_ID"> #Burger_ID#, <cfoutput>#Comments_ID#</cfoutput> <br/> </cfoutput> This is what is displayed after the cf code above is run. 1, (1)(3)(4)(1)(3)(4)(1)(3)(4) 3, (6)(6)(6) As you can see, The output above shows that the Burger with Burger_ID '1' has 3 comments, but the answer repeats 3 times as there are also 3 records with that same foreign key 'Burger_ID' in the T_Questions table. Similarly, even though Burger with Burger_ID 3 only has 1 comment in the comment table, it spits out the answer 3 times as there are 3 Questions with the same Burger_ID in the T_Question table. How would i solve this issue so that it only shows each answer once like below? 1, (1)(3)(4) 3, (6) Thanks so much again for your kind help. I have really been feeling down about this issue and as i am new, I really do not know how to go about solving this. Thank you again.