| Gaining data from the same table: MYSQL
Think need to do self join? |
mn1dbp
msg:1290521 | 4:09 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
I have a problem that im currently trying to work through. I have table (called run_horses) that has columns as follows: horse_id, sire_id, dam_id, damsire_id then another table called sires that has: id, sire_name both the sire_id and damsire_id correspond to the id from the sires table. Now i want to display results from the run_horses table to display the sire_name from sires that corresponds to sire_id and damsire_id but as both get this from the sires table and it will be different names for both im not sure how i do this. I beleive it involved something called a self join? But have never used or have any experience of this.
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storevalley
msg:1290522 | 4:26 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
How about something like this ... SELECT * FROM run_horses, sires as s, sires as d
WHERE (add your own clause to filter result set)
AND run_horses.sire_id = s.id
AND run_horses.damsire_id = d.id From the resulting recordset ... You should then be able to access sire info from alias s (s.id, s.sire_name) and damsire info from alias d (d.id, d.sire_name) ...
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arran
msg:1290523 | 4:30 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
As you guessed, you give the same table two different aliases: select sire.sire_name, damsire.sire_name from sires sire, sires damsire, run_horses where run_horses.sire_id = sire.id and run_horses.damsire_id = damsire.id arran. <added>Sorry storevalley, you beat me to it...</added>
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mn1dbp
msg:1290524 | 4:37 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
Between posting and coming back to read i did a bit further research and came up with: select t1.horse_name, t2.sire_name as 'sirename', t3.sire_name as 'damname' from run_horses AS t1, sires AS t2, sires AS t3 where (t1.sire=t2.id and t1.dam_sire=t3.id) This seems to work fine. Now i need to incorporate it into a bigger query (having the smaller table names will also help here) but i find it helps to build up big queries from smaller ones that i have tested work. Is there a name for what i have done - e.g. is it a type of join?
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storevalley
msg:1290525 | 5:00 pm on Dec 8, 2005 (gmt 0) |
This is just a natural (inner) join using a couple of aliases as far as I can see :) Ready to stand corrected of course ...
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