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I'm having some trouble trying to get Microsoft Access 2007 to accept my SQL query but it keeps throwing syntax errors at me that don't help me correct the problem.

I have two tables, let's call them Customers and Orders for ease.

I need some customer details, but also a few details from the most recent order. I currently have a query like this:

SELECT c.ID, c.Name, c.Address, o.ID, o.Date, o.TotalPrice
FROM Cust开发者_开发百科omers c
INNER JOIN Orders o
ON c.ID = o.CustomerID
AND o.ID = (SELECT TOP 1 ID FROM Orders WHERE CustomerID = c.ID ORDER BY Date DESC)

To me, it appears valid, but Access keeps throwing 'syntax error's at me and when I hit OK, it selects a piece of the SQL text that doesn't even relate to it.

If I take the extra SELECT clause out it works but is obviously not what I need.

Any ideas?

You cannot use AND in that way in MS Access, change it to WHERE. In addition, you have two reserved words in your column (field) names - Name, Date. These should be enclosed in square brackets when not prefixed by a table name or alias, or better, renamed.

SELECT c.ID, c.Name, c.Address, o.ID, o.Date, o.TotalPrice
FROM Customers c
INNER JOIN Orders o
ON c.ID = o.CustomerID
WHERE o.ID = (
     SELECT TOP 1 ID FROM Orders 
     WHERE CustomerID = c.ID ORDER BY [Date] DESC)

I worked out how to do it in Microsoft Access. You INNER JOIN on a pre-sorted sub-query. That way you don't have to do multiple ON conditions which aren't supported.

SELECT c.ID, c.Name, c.Address, o.OrderNo, o.OrderDate, o.TotalPrice
FROM Customers c
INNER JOIN (SELECT * FROM Orders ORDER BY OrderDate DESC) o
ON c.ID = o.CustomerID

How efficient this is another story, but it works...