And I cannot believe someone didn’t point out how awful comma joins are, and that the query should actually read:

SELECT c.*, rst.starttimename
FROM tblcourse c INNER JOIN tblcourse_category_extra ce USING (courseid)
LEFT JOIN tblref_starttime rst USING (starttimeid)
ORDER BY c.approveddate DESC

So much cleaner this way!

As I understand this was done to make MySQL more standard in handling joins, this required new code which was found to have this problem. It was however decided not to fix it as it break joins which were written not according to SQL standard.

I think that was bad idea though. Large amount of MySQL users do not care about standard too much… just about their application working.

Anyway… if all I have to do is wrap my from clause with parens then thats easy enough…….

Not sure why they decided to break ALL running mysql applications just for a couple parens. Not a good idea guys.