Limit a Left Join on the first table

Question

I have two tables: gems and gemdetail that are left joined. I am trying to limit the LEFT JOIN to 10 records in the gems table. There are 2 other tables joined (gemreply and use

Answer 1

Something like that

   SELECT * FROM A
      INNER JOIN ( SELECT * FROM A WHERE A.FIELD1='X' ORDER BY A.FIELD2 LIMIT 10) X
             ON (A.KEYFIELD=X.KEYFIELD)
      LEFT JOIN B ON (A.FIELD = B.FIELD)
      LEFT JOIN C ON (A.FIELD = C.FIELD)