Re: Retrieving names from second table from id number

Hehe, sounds tricky. There's prossibly a more elegant solution, but this one may work, aliasing the master table a few times with different names: SELECT s.*, r1.name, r2.name, r3.name FROM schedule s, ref_master r1, ref_master r2, ref_master r3 WHERE s.ref1_id=r1.id AND s.ref2_id=r2.id AND s.ref3_id=r3.id I sure it would work in Oracle, a little curious about it working in mysql. Good Luck, -Joe ""Brett"" <brett@jnewman.net> wrote in message news:01a701c0ae6e$fcacea00$e1214ed8@bcnu... > I am retrieving values to form a shedule for referees. The master shedule > contains all info for a given date with three referees for that game. The > three referees are refrenced by their id number from the referee information > table. I am now stuck trying to figure out how to take the three referee > id's from the results and display the names and email address for each id. > I am capable of writing a query to return the results from the master > schedule table and the information for each id from the referee info table, > but do not know how to form the query so that where the id would be > displayed I can display the name and email instead. I use mysql and I hope > I explained this in a reasonable way. Any comments suggestions will be much > appreciated. > > Brett > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >