If logic in SQL or Access queries

Question

Greetings, fellow SO people.

I am working on a project that has me working with an Access database. Here's the setup:

I have three tables:

Tab1 with employee names, ID#s, Manager names and Manager ID#s.
Tab2 with chat info, employee ID#s and employee names.
Tab3 with Manager ID#s, Manager names and team names.

I currently have a query that selects the following:

tab2.[employee name], tab2.[employee id], tab3.[chat info], tab1.[manager id], tab1.[manager id], tab3.[team name]
where
tab2.[employee id] = tab1.[employee id] and tab2.[manager id] = tab3.[manager id];

What I am trying to accomplish is this: I would like to have a way to put "Unknown" in the "Team" field if the IDs don't match up somewhere along the line. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Perhaps something like:

select tab2.[employee name], 
       tab2.[employee id], 
       tab3.[chat info], 
       tab1.[manager id], 
       Nz(tab3.[team name], 'Unknown') as [team name]
    from (tab2
        left join tab1
            on tab2.[employee id] = tab1.[employee id])
        left join tab3
            on tab2.[manager id] = tab3.[manager id]

Answer 2

SELECT
   tab2.[employee name], tab2.[employee id], 
   tab3.[chat info], tab1.[manager id], 
   tab1.[manager id], 
   Nz(tab3.[team name],"Unknown")
FROM (tab2 
LEFT JOIN tab1 
ON tab2.[employee id] = tab1.[employee id]) 
LEFT JOIN tab3 
ON tab2.[manager id] = tab3.[manager id];