Problem with SQL Join - sql

Question

I have two tables, tblEntities and tblScheduling.
tblEntities:
EntityID ShortName Active
1 Dirtville 1
2 Goldtown 1
3 Blackston 0
4 Cornfelt 1
5 Vick 1
tblScheduling:
ScheduleID EntityID SchedulingYearID
1 1 20
2 1 21
3 2 20
4 3 19
5 5 20
I need a query that will show ALL ACTIVE Entities and their schedule information for a particular ScheduleYearID.
Output should look like (the desired SchedulingYearID in this case is 20):
EntityID ScheduleID
1 1
2 3
4 NULL
5 5
The query that I have written so far is:
SELECT tblEntities.EntityID, tblEntities.ShortName, tblScheduling.ScheduleID
FROM tblScheduling RIGHT OUTER JOIN
tblEntities ON tblScheduling.EntityID = tblEntities.EntityID
WHERE (tblScheduling.SchedulingYearID = #SchedulingYearID)
AND (tblEntities.Active = 1)
ORDER BY tblEntities.EntityID
My problem is that using this query it will not include active entities without schedule information (such as EntityID 4 in the example above). I can write the query to display all active entities and their schedule status fine, but once I start limiting it via the SchedulingYearID I lose those particular entities.
Are there any solutions that I am obviously missing without having to resort to subqueries, cursors, etc.? If not it's not a big deal, I just feel like I am missing something simple here.

Answer 1

Try this... Join conditions are evaluated to produce the intermediate Join result set, and then, (for an outer join), all the rows from the "Outer" side are added back in before moving on... Where conditions are evaluated after all joins are done...
SELECT E.EntityID, E.ShortName, S.ScheduleID
FROM tblEntities E
Left Join tblScheduling S
ON S.EntityID = E.EntityID
And S.SchedulingYearID = #SchedulingYearID
WHERE E.Active = 1
ORDER BY E.EntityID
I change your join order cause I prefer left joins... but it doesn't matter

Answer 2

It's your conditions in the where clause:
(tblScheduling.SchedulingYearID = #SchedulingYearID)
when there is no tblScheduling info this wil always fail. Add
(((tblScheduling.SchedulingYearID = #SchedulingYearID) OR (tblScheduling.SchedulingYearID is null) )
or wathever null condition checking your DB uses.

Answer 3

I think the trouble is that the WHERE clause is filtering out the rows where SchedulingYearID is null. So don't.
SELECT tblEntities.EntityID, tblEntities.ShortName, tblScheduling.ScheduleID
FROM tblScheduling RIGHT OUTER JOIN
tblEntities ON tblScheduling.EntityID = tblEntities.EntityID
WHERE (tblScheduling.SchedulingYearID = #SchedulingYearID OR
tblScheduling.SchedulingYearID IS NULL)
AND (tblEntities.Active = 1)
ORDER BY tblEntities.EntityID;