Why is my left join not returning nulls?

Question

In sql server 2008, I have the following query:

select      
    c.title as categorytitle,
    s.title as subcategorytitle,
    i.title as itemtitle
from cat         


        

Answer 1

Maybe this join also should be a left join?

join items i on ic.itemid = i.itemid and i.siteid = 132

EDIT:

Now you are selecting only existing site ids in the where clause:

i.siteid = 132

It should allow null values, try something like this:

(i.siteid = 132 or i.siteid is null)

or you could move i.siteid = 132 back to the join condition