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I need a help with selecting the rows in a table depending on the status in previous table. Table1 Column1 Column2 Status Smith Alex 1 Smith Mark 0 John Smith 1 I have second table with 2 columns. I want to select only those rows which have ANY of the user of table1 in column1 or column2 with status 1. Table2 Column1 Column2 Smith Anderson Martin Walker Alex Scott For example, Table1, the first row has status 1. Now i want to SELECT the rows from table2, which have "smith" OR "alex" in Column1 OR Column2. So, from Table2 it should select Row1 and Row3. Do I have to join the tables? Wont that be slow? Can I perform SELECT with EXISTS query? Any help will be highly appreciated.