Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-21 Thread Brent Baisley
003 3:04 PM To: John Ryan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables A join merges every record in one table with every record in another table, which is something you rarely want to do. So you want to set a filter on the merged records, which can be anything, but is usua

RE: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-20 Thread Ben Lake
Hehe, ok, that was bad there for a second :) Ben -Original Message- From: Brian Dailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:24 PM To: Ben Lake; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables No, he meant rarely want to join entire tables

Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-20 Thread Brian Dailey
al Message- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:04 PM To: John Ryan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables A join merges every record in one table with every record in another table, which is something you rarely wan

RE: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-20 Thread Ben Lake
Rarely want to do joins? That's a new one. Ben -Original Message- From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:04 PM To: John Ryan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables A join merges every record in one table

Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-20 Thread Brent Baisley
A join merges every record in one table with every record in another table, which is something you rarely want to do. So you want to set a filter on the merged records, which can be anything, but is usually a match between a field in one table and a field in another table. That's a join in two

Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-20 Thread Brian Dailey
John, It sounds like you need to read basic documentation on combining SQL queries. Basically, you need to have a column that is common across both tables. Eg., in TABLE1 have a column named TABLE1ID. Have the same ID cross referenced in TABLE2. The ID would be sequenced in some way (auto_incre

Re: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables

2003-08-20 Thread Jonatan Pugliese.
select t1.name,t2.salary from personal t1,sal t2 where t1.id=t2.id; - Original Message - From: "John Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:41 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] SELECT FROM 2 or more tables > Is it easy?? Is it possible?? Should I just ru