Snaxpac Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Hey Guys, I can't seem to work my head around this one. I'm making a social site, just as a mini project. I can't work my head around this query... I have 2 tables Members Table and a Friends Table -Members table has a member_id (unique) -Friends table has a member_id, friend_id and friend_status (1 means they are friends). This is what my table looks like... member_id friend_id friend_status 20 17 1 17 20 1 17 21 1 21 17 1 What I need... Let's say I'm logged on as 20 and I want to see everyone I'm not friends with. So in this case, member 20 isn't friends with 21. I want to output 21's profile... Here's my query so far... SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS M.member_id, M.name, M.location, M.photoname, M.photosize FROM as2_members M, as2_friends F WHERE 0=0 AND M.member_id != '20' AND F.member_id != '20' AND F.friend_id != '20' AND M.name LIKE '%%' AND M.location LIKE '%%' The output for this query is member_id 17 21 17 21 The reason its' outputting like this is because there are 2 other rows of not equal to 20.... Is function like row is not equal to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Sounsd like you need a left join Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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