Hi.
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:06:45AM -0500, peter@stripped wrote:
> On 18 May 99, at 18:11, Jim Faucette wrote:
>
> > Table A:
> > num INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT;
> > lname CHAR(20) NOT NULL;
> > fname CHAR(20) NOT NULL;
> > KEY n (lname, fname);
> >
> > Table B:
> > num INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL;
> > phone char(20);
> >
> > Then to get all of John Smith's phone numbers you'd:
> > SELECT fname, lname, phone FROM A, B
> > WHERE lname ='Smith' AND fname='John' AND A.num = B.num;
This results in a list of the phone numbers of John Smith.
> Why not just do this
>
> SELECT fname, lname, phone FROM A, B
> WHERE A.num = B.num;
This results in a list of phone numbers of all people listed in table A.
> I don't see the need for the lname and fname.
They select of whom you want to see the phone number.
Bye,
Benjamin.
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