SELECT command with a WHERE condition and an INNER JOIN - sql

Question

I'm sure I must be making a trivial mistake here, but I've been searching around for help with this problem and all I can find is information on conditional INNER JOINs.
< EDIT > The problem is that this stored procedure is not returning anything at all. If I type just:
SELECT TOP (6) UserID, Category, Title, SUBSTRING(Article, 0, 200) AS Summary, DatePosted
FROM ContribContent
WHERE (DateFeatured IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY DateFeatured DESC
Into the console then I get values returned. So it must be something to do with the inner-join? < / EDIT >
The idea is to:
take the content which has been
featured (DateFeatured is NOT NULL)
and place it all into a temporary
table
get the user names and picture from the users table and match them to the values in the temporary table using the UserID value.
sort the temporary table in order of the date each post was featured.
select the top six entries from the table
Here's the code:
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[admin_GetFeaturedContrib]
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #FeaturedContrib TABLE (
UserID INT,
Category INT,
Title varchar(100),
Summary varchar(200),
DatePosted date,
FirstName varchar(50),
LastName varchar(50),
Picture varchar(100)
)
INSERT INTO #FeaturedContrib
SELECT TOP 6 ContribContent.UserID, ContribContent.Category, ContribContent.Title, SUBSTRING(ContribContent.Article, 0, 200) AS Summary, ContribContent.DatePosted, Users.FirstName, Users.LastName, Users.Picture
FROM ContribContent
INNER JOIN Users
ON ContribContent.UserID = Users.UserID
WHERE ContribContent.DateFeatured IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY ContribContent.DateFeatured DESC
SELECT * FROM #FeaturedContrib
END
There are two data tables involved:
Users - a table storing all of the users and their information.
UserID INT
FirstName varchar(50)
LastName varchar(50)
Picture varchar(50)
etc...
ContribContent
ContribContentID INT
UserID INT
Category INT
Title varchar(100)
Article varchar(MAX)
Picture varchar(50)
DatePosted date
DateFeatured date
Deleted bit
THANKS to anyone who can help out!

Answer 1

Run only -
SELECT TOP 6 ContribContent.UserID, ContribContent.Category, ContribContent.Title, SUBSTRING(ContribContent.Article, 0, 200) AS Summary, ContribContent.DatePosted, Users.FirstName, Users.LastName, Users.Picture
FROM ContribContent
INNER JOIN Users
ON ContribContent.UserID = Users.UserID
WHERE ContribContent.DateFeatured IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY ContribContent.DateFeatured DESC
See what you getting might be an issue with your Where or your join see carefully if you have any data in the first place being returned. My guess is join see if you have matching userids you are joining on...(Hint : Left join maybe your answer)