Using Left Outer Join

Question

Hi SAP,
I have an access database with table called "Employee_ID".  I am linking this table to a table called "Sales" in our main database and trying to report on January 2009.
There is one employee that is not appearing in my report.  I know this employee has had no sales in Jan 2009.  So, I tried linking the table using Left Outer Join and still this employee is not appearing in my report.
As a test, when I bring in Employee_ID table alone, the missing employee appears but when I try linking it INNER or LEFT OUTER join to table Sales, this employee does not appear.
Any help how I can bring the employee in from table Employee_ID?
Many thanks in advance,
Zack H.

Answer 1

Carl & Raghavendra,
Your suggestion led me to the finding my solution.  Your suggestion brought back the missing employee but I needed all employees that had sales in January 2009 AND those that didn't.  So I had to tweak your select expert formula as follows:
isnull({Sales.amt}) or
{Sales.period}="0109"
This brought back everything as needed!  There was one negative about using this method.  The performance was poor.  It took a really long time to run.
To avoid having to wait for this to run and increase the performance, I had to go into the database and add a $0.00 sales amt for employee 2040 (or an empty sales amount record) in the month of January 2009.  This brought back everyone also and it obviously increased the performance exponentially.  Curious, why does it take forever to run using the above formula in select expert?
Thank you both Raghavendra and Carl for your relentless efforts to find a solution.  You did it!
Zack H.