Обсуждение: displaying correct name
Hi list! I have two tables. One is contains User info, the other requesting info. ownerid and buyerid are userid in the usertable. Table "users" Column | Type | -----------+-----------------------------+userid | integer | serialusername | character varying(25) |password | character varying(32) | Table "item" Column | Type | ----------------+------------------------+itemid | integer | serialuserid | integer |title | character varying(100) | Table "requests" Column | Type | ------------+-----------------------------+requestid | integer | serialownerid | integer |buyerid | integer |itemid | integer | what i want to do is select from "requests" where ownerid=<integer>. the result should contain the users.username of requests.buyerid and the item.title of requests.itemid. my problem is... i am getting the username of requests.ownerid instead from my query. here is my query: select u.username, i.title from test.requests r, test.users u, test.items i where r.ownerid=u.userid and r.itemid=i.itemidand r.ownerid = (select userid from test.users where userid=1); thanks. any help appreciated. - bruce __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com
Bruce Young wrote: <cut> > what i want to do is select from "requests" where ownerid=<integer>. > the result should contain the users.username of requests.buyerid and the > item.title of requests.itemid. > my problem is... i am getting the username of requests.ownerid instead from my > query. > here is my query: > > select u.username, i.title from test.requests r, test.users u, test.items i > where r.ownerid=u.userid and r.itemid=i.itemid > and r.ownerid = (select userid from test.users where userid=1); > > thanks. > any help appreciated. > > - bruce ??? As you answered yourself in description above, change r.ownerid=u.userid into r.buyerid=u.userid Regards, Tomasz Myrta