Joining Tables With Twist

PLS, help ,

I am trying to JOIN two tables together with the LEFT OUTER JOIN statement, but
with a twist :

1. table 1 id and table 2 projectid are the join field
2. Table 1 has de detail info for several ocurrences in table 2. For each id
in table 1 (project detail), there are many entries of projectid on table 2
(update log on project)
3. I need a query that gets each project detail (table 1) with ONLY the LAST
(most recent) update date and comment (table 2) for that project.

The result report will look something like this:

Repeat_____________________________________________
PROJECT NAME(table 1) PROJECT DATE(table 1) PROJECT OWNER(table 1)
LAST UPDATE(table 2) LAST UPDATE COMMENT(table 2)
Repeat______________________________________________

I have used the SELECT TOP 1 function, the DISTINCT function, I am out of ideas .

Thanx

Great Thanx!,One more thing...how about if I want to display also T1 date for T2 that do not have any updateDate but I need then to be displayed as 'NA', Can this be accomplished?
Thanx in advance

Using union is one possibility



The number of columns in each part of the union must be the same so you need to add as many constants as there are columns in table2 to the second select. These must be the same type as the columns in table2.