It sounds to me like you want to join the two tables? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/join.html
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:56, bruce<bedoug...@earthlink.net> wrote: > hi. > > i've got a situation, where i'm trying to figure out how to select an item > from tblA that may/maynot be in tblB. > > if the item is only in tblA, i can easilty get a list of the items > select * from tblA > > if the item is in tblA but not linked to tblB, i can get the items as well > select * from tblA where id not in (select id from tblB); > > but i have no idea how to combine the two selects.. > > i need to combine them, as the app can create tblA for a given item, and > then later on create the data in tblB, with thblA.id = tblB.aid. > > thoughts/pointers on this would be appreciated. > > thanks! > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mart...@crystal-labs.nl > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
