Selecting Data from two tables

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mycoolross posted this at 17:44 — 14th March 2003.

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This is so simple. I am frustrated that I cannot do this.

I need to select 2 columns from two different tables:

Select T1.col1, T1.col2, T2.Col1, T2.Col2 from
Table1 T1, Table2 T2

Here is the problem Table 1 has three rows of data
Table 2 has 15 so when I write out the values of the recordset
The values repeat.

Thanks,

Mike

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Mark Hensler posted this at 17:54 — 14th March 2003.

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Are there any keys that you can join on?

mairving posted this at 21:58 — 14th March 2003.

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What Mark means is are there any fields linking the tables. If so, you need to narrow down the SQL. Here is an example.

Small table - primary key is table_id,
Big table - foreign key is table_id, which links the tables. A query for all of the records would look like so:

<?php
SELECT * from table1, table2
WHERE table1.table_id=table2.table_id;
?>

If you only wanted one field, just add an additional statement like:

<?php
SELECT * from table1, table2
WHERE table1.table_id=table2.table_id
AND table.table_id='1';
?>

Mark Irving
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