Originally posted by otto
you should do an inner join in order to populate all the records you have.
Are you sure about inner join ?
I swapped my tables around and now the report is running forever. Makes scene I am no longer linking a 1 to many but a many to many so if I have 200 records in one and 100 n the other I have to pull back 100 record 200 times. OK time to try the Full outer join and put the tables back the way they were
Again thanks for your help
See below for what my Documentation tells me on joins
Inner
An Inner join is the standard type of join. The result set from an Inner join
includes all the records in which the linked field value in both tables is an
exact match.
Left outer
The result set from a Left Outer join includes all the records in which the
linked field value in both tables is an exact match. It also includes a row for
every record in the primary (left) table for which the linked field value has no
match in the lookup table
Right Outer
The result set from a Right Outer join includes all the records in which the
linked field value in both tables is an exact match. It also includes a row for
every record in the lookup (right) table for which the linked field value has no
match in the primary table
Full Outer
A Full Outer join is a bidirectional outer join where you can see all records in
your linked tables. The result set from a Full Outer join includes all the
records in which the linked field value in both tables is an exact match. It
also includes a row for every record in the primary (left) table for which the
linked field value has no match in the lookup table, and a row for every record
in the lookup (right) table for which the linked field value has no match in the
primary table