SELECT just one FROM the LEFT JOINTs +mySQL

Question

Got following Tables in my SQL-Database (simplified):

Table Blogs :

+----+----------------------+----------+
| ID |         Date         | TitleGer |
+----+----------------------+----------+
| 1  | 2017-04-28 15:09:46  | Huhu     |
| 2  | 2017-04-28 15:16:18  | Miau     |
| 3  | 2017-04-28 15:17:14  | Kleff    |
+----+----------------------+----------+

Table PicturesJoin :

+-------------+---------+---------------------+
|  IDPicture  | IDBlog  |        Date         |
+-------------+---------+---------------------+
|         86  |      1  | 2017-06-28 17:41:11 |
|         87  |      1  | 2017-06-28 17:41:11 |
+-------------+---------+---------------------+

Table Pictures :

+------+-------------------------+---------------------+
|  ID  |        Filename         |        Date         |
+------+-------------------------+---------------------+
|  86  | 20170512200326_320.jpg  | 2017-05-12 20:03:26 |
|  87  | 20170512200326_384.jpg  | 2017-05-12 20:03:30 |
+------+-------------------------+---------------------+

PictureJoin "joins" the Picture with the Blog-Table. Now I use following SQL-Command to joine these two Tables (Blog - PictureJoin) / (PictureJoin - Pictures) together.

SELECT
  Blogs.ID,
  Blogs.Date,
  TitleGer,
  Pictures.Filename
FROM
  Blogs
LEFT JOIN
  PicturesJoin ON PicturesJoin.IDBlog = Blogs.ID
LEFT JOIN
  Pictures ON Pictures.ID = PicturesJoin.IDPicture
ORDER BY
  DATE DESC

The result might look like that:

+------+----------------------+-----------+------------------------+
|  ID  |        Date          | TitleGer  |       Filename         |
+------+----------------------+-----------+------------------------+
|   1  | 2017-06-28 15:09:46  | Huhu      | 20170512200326_320.jpg |
|   1  | 2017-06-28 15:09:46  | Huhu      | 20170512200326_384.jpg |
|   2  | 2017-04-28 15:16:18  | Miau      | NULL                   |
|   3  | 2017-04-28 15:17:14  | Kleff     | NULL                   |
+------+----------------------+-----------+------------------------+

He makes a cross-product out of the available Pictures, which is also logical. But I want him to just use the first Picture he finds. In the end it should look like that:

+------+----------------------+-----------+------------------------+
|  ID  |        Date          | TitleGer  |       Filename         |
+------+----------------------+-----------+------------------------+
|   1  | 2017-06-28 15:09:46  | Huhu      | 20170512200326_320.jpg |
|   2  | 2017-04-28 15:16:18  | Miau      | NULL                   |
|   3  | 2017-04-28 15:17:14  | Kleff     | NULL                   |
+------+----------------------+-----------+------------------------+

Tried several hours but couldn't get it to work. Please help!

Answer 1

The easiest approach may be to select one IDPicture per IDBlog from PicturesJoin only:

SELECT
  b.ID,
  b.Date,
  b.TitleGer,
  p.Filename
FROM Blogs b
LEFT JOIN
(
  SELECT 
    IDBlog, 
    MIN(IDPicture) AS IDPicture
  FROM PicturesJoin 
  GROUP BY IDBlog
) pj ON pj.IDBlog = b.ID
LEFT JOIN Pictures p ON p.ID = pj.IDPicture
ORDER BY b.Date DESC;

Answer 2

SELECT b.ID,b.Date,b.TitleGer,p.Filename
FROM Blogs b
LEFT JOIN
(
    SELECT main_table.*
    FROM PicturesJoin main_table LEFT JOIN PicturesJoin child_table
     ON (main_table.IDBlog= child_table.IDBlog AND main_table.IDPicture> child_table.IDPicture)
    WHERE child_table.id IS NULL
)
OUTER_TABLE ON OUTER_TABLE .IDBlog = b.ID
LEFT JOIN Pictures p ON p.ID = pj.IDPicture
ORDER BY b.Date DESC;

Try above query.