On Mon, July 2, 2007 21:10, Hiep Nguyen wrote: > > take your advice, i looked in to JOIN and i got the idea. but i noticed > that in order to use JOIN, don't you need to have the same column name in > both tables? i just don't see it in your example here. is there > something that i'm missing?
Using the form: select t1.field1 data1, t2.field1 data2, t3.fieldn data3 from table_a t1 left join table_b t2 on ( t1.id=t2.t1_ref ) left join table_n t3 on ( t2.id=t3.t2_ref ); You can join on allmost anything. ?? Can typecasts be used in this scenario ?? > > can u give a select example with JOIN on three tables above? -- Later Mogens Melander +45 40 85 71 38 +66 870 133 224 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
