Left Outer Join possible?

i have a problem which needs to get resolved and i hope some of you can help. i have an article table (Table A) Article Description A43234 desk A42323 paper A43235 chair and a attribute table (Table B) Attribute Article Value height A42323 120cm width A42324 200cm material A42323 wood price A43235 chair not every article has an attribute in table B. But if there is a material attribute entry for an article of Table A then it should be in the result. If there is no material attribute entry then it should be an empty string. The result should be: Article Attribute Value A42323 paper wood A42324 desk "" A42325 chair "" My idea: SELECT a.Article, a.Description, a.DLV, b.Value from tableA a join tableB b on a.Article = b.Article and b.Attribute = 'material' Thanks!