• Same as Jeff, I'm not sure what do you mean by employee having several EmpId's, however, your current query

    SELECT Distinct a.*,

    b.Station,

    c.EmpID

    FROM #NoStaffID as a

    Left JOIN #Station b

    On a.City = b.City

    JOIN Employee.Payroll c

    On a.City=c.City

    WHERE c.PayID is not null

    will only return records where PayID is present and not null.

    I have one question and one suggetsion to you:

    1. Why there is no join on EmpID to Payroll table? Surely you may have multiple Payroll records per city, looks like "cut & paste" issue to me.

    2. If you follow the order of JOINS from INNER to OUTER and use a bit better formatting, you will make your query much more readable and therefore more maintainable:

    SELECT DISTINCT a.*

    ,b.Station

    ,c.EmpID

    FROM #NoStaffID AS a

    INNER JOIN Employee.Payroll AS c

    ON c.City = a.City

    LEFT JOIN #Station AS b

    ON b.City = a.City

    WHERE c.PayID IS NOT NULL

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