Quoting Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I wasn't sure if you understood the concept of association tables so forgive > me if I told you things you already knew; I didn't mean to be patronizing. No problem--you weren't patronizing at all, and I did tell you I was new at this! > With respect to your queries, it would be a lot easier to help if you showed > us a little bit of the data from each table, the queries that you are > running, the error messages (or incorrect results) you are getting and the > results that you *wanted* to get. Otherwise, it is very hard to envision > what you are trying to accomplish. > Okay, here's some more detail: what I'm working with is, essentially, a catalog of web resources. For each resource there is a title, a description, and a URL, as well as a primary key. That's the resources table (containing resid, title, description, and url). In addition, the resources are all associated with numerous categories of different types (those are in the topic table, which has the following fields: topicid, topic, parentid, and type). The types of categories included are topic (all of these have a parentid of NULL), subtopic (all of these have a parentid equivalent to the topicid of their parent), resource type (all of these have a parentid of 998), and a few others. (I know this is a little confusing--I've inherited this format, it's there for other reasons). Then there's the topic_dir table, which is my association table linking resources and topic tables. What I'm trying to do is this: get the resource type of all resources with the topicid of 36. If I were working in Access, I would save a query on topicid, and then use that to build the final query. Is there a way to do this in mySQL, or is there a better way to accomplish the same end? Thanks! -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
