Jeff, Try a JOIN:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/JOIN.html or for some good articles: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/19 HTH! Cory On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:01, jeff wrote: > Hello.... > > I am having some trouble writing a query that will pull the information I > need from the database. I hope it's even possible at this point. > > A little background - > > I have one table called 'request' and another table 'countries' > The request form we have has three seperate address groups in it, so it > takes three different countries per entry. The countries table contains > 'country_id' and 'country_name'. The 'request' table contains 'x_country', > 'y_country' and 'z_country' - these fields all reference the 'country_id' > field in the 'countries' database. > > Now for the delimma - > > I need to pull out some information and dump it to a spreadsheet. That's > no problem, but I need the country names instead of the country_id. > > So if I do - SELECT x_country, y_country, z_country FROM request WHERE ID > = x - I'll get the following: > > ------------------- > | 154 | 153 | 154 | > ------------------- > > instead, I need this: > > -------------------------------------------------- > | United States | United Kingdom | United States | > -------------------------------------------------- > > I can dump one country by doing: > > SELECT x_country, country_name FROM request, countries WHERE x_country = > country_id AND ID = x > > But I was hoping I would be able to do all three in one query. > Any help would be *greatly* appreciated! > > Thanks!!! > > jeff > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
