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[Tandem]

I was wondering, is it possible to select records from two different tables in one query?

If so can somebody show me a theoretical example? I would like to use this for a php script.

Thanks in advance fo any help.

[radar]

SELECT username FROM users,monkies WHERE test = 1

I think this would be the correct syntax for doing this... 

[Tandem]

Thanks, that was really helpful!

[radar]

Now the question is, does it work...  lol..  I haven't actually tested that right this second but i did it once and i think thats the way i did it...

[.josh]

yes it is possible. doing something as simple as this will work:

[color=red]select * from table1,table2[/color]

was that the end-all-be-all of your question, or were you trying to do something specific?

[fenway]

Please use proper JOIN syntax... you'll thank me later.

[Barand]

[quote author=Crayon Violent link=topic=105890.msg423173#msg423173 date=1156743671]
yes it is possible. doing something as simple as this will work:

[color=red]select * from table1,table2[/color]

[/quote]

@CV,

Yes, it will work but inless you specify how the tables should be joined you get every row in table1 joined with every row in table2 (cartesian join) so if you have 100 rows in each table you get 10,000 rows returned

[.josh]

yeah i know. my example was more along the lines of uh..cheekiness? sarcasm? it was more of an effort to get him to be more specific :)