Thread: left join a parenthesised inner join group

I tried the following code and was very suprised this didn't work the way I
had expected it to. Is my expectation correct or the way that it implements
it correct?

select * from a left join
( b join c on b.f1=c.f1 join d on d.f2=c.f2 join e on e.f3=d.f3) on
a.f4=b.f4

I would like it to have all the rows from a left joined with the total inner
join of the rest.
It actually performs it as if I did not have parenthesis at all and had the
inner join connected to the left outer join thereby excluding all rows that
do not have a match from b to c

Thank You
Sim

My bad. It is doing what it is supposed to. Now I just have to figure
out why it is not giving me the results I am looking for.

Sim

"Sim Zacks" <sim@compulab.co.il> wrote in message news:dkcsji$qbl$1@news.hub.org...
> I tried the following code and was very suprised this didn't work the way I
> had expected it to. Is my expectation correct or the way that it implements
> it correct?
>
> select * from a left join
> ( b join c on b.f1=c.f1 join d on d.f2=c.f2 join e on e.f3=d.f3) on
> a.f4=b.f4
>
> I would like it to have all the rows from a left joined with the total inner
> join of the rest.
> It actually performs it as if I did not have parenthesis at all and had the
> inner join connected to the left outer join thereby excluding all rows that
> do not have a match from b to c
>
> Thank You
> Sim
>
>