Selecting virtual rows

[Steffan A. Cline]

I am working on a query where I need to get a certain number of rows based
on a setting BUT if the number limited does not exist then return nulls
instead.

SELECT ca.filename,ca.attributeid
FROM companyattributes ca
WHERE ca.companyid=1234
LIMIT (SELECT at.LimitMovies
FROM accounttypes AS at LEFT JOIN companies as c on
c.accounttypeid=at.accounttypeid
WHERE c.companyid=1234)

This will return the first x rows BUT obviously if none exist I get 0 rows.
If there are 2 in the limit statement I but if there are 0 found I need
something like this

attributeId | fileName
________________________
NULL        NULL
NULL        NULL

OR if there is actually something found -

attributeId | fileName
________________________
1           file1.jpg
2           file2.jpg


Thanks

Steffan

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