Question

Basically I have 2 tables: uclk_user and uclk_task

uclk_user table has user_id, name, postcode

uclk_task table has user_id, job_id, description, fully_completed, date_due

I want to include the user name from the uclk_user in my task query below…
Obviously user_id is the key.

select job_id, user_id, fully_completed, description, date_due
from uclk_task
WHERE date_due <= NOW() AND fully_completed = 0
ORDER BY date_due ASC

How this should be done?

Answer 1

Use JOIN to select from multiple tables on a common criteria

SELECT t.job_id, t.user_id, t.fully_completed, t.description, t.date_due, u.name
FROM uclk_task t
INNER JOIN uckl_user u
ON t.user_id = u.user_id
WHERE t.date_due <= NOW() AND t.fully_completed = 0
ORDER BY t.date_due ASC