Question

Following on from MySQL multiple Id lookups

So I’m looking at other ways around the fulltextsearch limitation on views.

I updated the provided query…

SELECT  t.teacherId, s1.subjectName AS name1, s2.subjectName AS name2, s3.subjectName AS name3
FROM    teacherProfile t
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s1
ON      s1.subjectId = t.subjectOne 
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s2
ON      s2.subjectId = t.subjectTwo
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s3
ON      s3.subjectId = t.subjectThree

Which works a treat at least, but if I add..

WHERE name1 = ENGLISH'

to the end I get Unknown column name1, can I not even do a simple query on the data?

Answer 1

SELECT  t.teacherId, s1.subjectName AS name1, s2.subjectName AS name2, s3.subjectName AS name3
FROM    teacherProfile t
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s1
ON      s1.subjectId = t.subjectOne 
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s2
ON      s2.subjectId = t.subjectTwo
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s3
ON      s3.subjectId = t.subjectThree
WHERE   'English' IN (s1.subjectName, s2.subjectName, s3.subjectName)

, or, referring to your original problem,

SELECT  t.teacherId, s1.subjectName AS name1, s2.subjectName AS name2, s3.subjectName AS name3
FROM    teacherProfile t
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s1
ON      s1.subjectId = t.subjectOne 
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s2
ON      s2.subjectId = t.subjectTwo
LEFT JOIN
        subjects s3
ON      s3.subjectId = t.subjectThree
WHERE   MATCH(s1.subjectName, s2.subjectName, s3.subjectName) AGAINST ('+English +Physics' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

(works only if both tables are MyISAM)

This will return all teachers who teach both English and Physics.