Hi,

I am doing a select from to tables which are join'ed, I cannot determine 
automatically which table a column belongs to:-

I have tried both these selects:-

SELECT * FROM staff, staffsubjectTitles WHERE staff.id = 11 AND 
staffsubjectTitles.staff_id = 11

SELECT staff.*, staffsubjectTitles.* FROM staff, staffsubjectTitles 
WHERE staff.id = 11 AND staffsubjectTitles.staff_id = 11

But both give me:-

name is TYPE 12
uid is TYPE 12
id is TYPE 4
departmentTitles_id is TYPE 4
jobTitles_id is TYPE 4
taAdmin is TYPE 1
studentAdmin is TYPE 1
groupBSD_id is TYPE 4
taUser is TYPE 1
staffAdmin is TYPE 1
keyroll_id is TYPE 4
doesReports is TYPE 1
homeEmail is TYPE 12
id is TYPE 4
staff_id is TYPE 4
subjectTitles_id is TYPE 4

What I am hoping to get is:-

staff.name is TYPE 12
staff.uid is TYPE 12
staff.id is TYPE 4
staff.departmentTitles_id is TYPE 4
staff.jobTitles_id is TYPE 4
staff.taAdmin is TYPE 1
staff.studentAdmin is TYPE 1
staff.groupBSD_id is TYPE 4
staff.taUser is TYPE 1
staff.staffAdmin is TYPE 1
staff.keyroll_id is TYPE 4
staff.doesReports is TYPE 1
staff.homeEmail is TYPE 12
staffsubjectTitles.id is TYPE 4
staffsubjectTitles.staff_id is TYPE 4
staffsubjectTitles.subjectTitles_id is TYPE 4

This is what I use to display the results (Perl):-

for ( $i = 1 ; $i <= $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS} ; $i++ ) {
   print "$sth->{NAME}->[$i-1] is TYPE $sth->{TYPE}->[$i-1] <br>\n";
}

Unfortunately I left my O'reilly mySql & perl dbi book at work.

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