Landslyde

I appreciate you, Barand. Every time I think I have a good grasp of the LEFT JOIN, something like this shows me I'm still on a slippery slope. I understand your explanation. And even more than the working solution you provided, the explanation was what I was looking for. Something more to help me try to solidify LEFT JOINS. Thank you for taking time to offer that. It helped.

Barand: Truth is, another person helped me with this. The query, the quarters table, all from him. But that was some time back and I can't recall who it was or what forum it was on for me to go back and review my history. This use to work, but somehow I've fouled it up. There will be many members, so having the quarters table store quarterly info isn't an option. Each member must be able to see their own quarterly earnings. As you suggested, I changed the query to: $stmt = $db->prepare('SELECT qtr AS Quarter, SUM(amount_paid) as Total FROM quarters AS q LEFT JOIN histor

I tried to edit the above post, but I wasn't "authorized" for that. I misread. Adminer is web-based. The Linux GUI I use for MySQL / MariaDB is JPDB Admin. There's a FREE edition and one for $15. Not a bad way to go.

I use Adminer for MySQL / MariaDB. Very intuitive. Nice, clean interface. And it comes with a slew of skins to fit personal preferences.

I'm failing miserably at this, but here's what I have: MariaDB [master]> describe quarters; +-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | qtr | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | | +-------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ MariaDB [master]> describe history; +--------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +--------------+------------------+------+-----+------