> SELECT a.* FROM company a, employee b WHERE a.id=b.cid AND b.name='joe' OR > b.name='bill'; > however, this would return any companies that has ONLY one Bill or one Joe > .. I only want companies that > have BOTH. It also returns one row with the company per name it found, so > you can imagine I got confused > when it found 2000 rows when my list of companies is 50 rows =) Basically, SELECT DISTINCT ..... will give you just one row per company found. > > what I'd like to do is find the > company who has both bill and joe > > I tried: > SELECT a.* FROM company a, employee b WHERE a.id=b.cid AND b.name='joe' AND > b.name='bill'; Try: SELECT DISTINCT a.* FROM company a, employee b, employee c WHERE a.id=b.cid AND a.id=c.cid WHERE b.name='joe' AND c.name='bill' > > But I realized this is all wrong cause the same cell cannot be both Joe and > Bill =) > > mysql query smallint HTH
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