Question

Have a problem find a query for my tables

I have 2 tables tab table1 and table2 as follow

table1
id (int) auto_increment
table2_id1(int)
table2_id2(int)
table2_id3(int)
table2_id4(int)

table2

id(int) auto
name (varchar)

that I will do is to get a query to show the name for table2.name insted of the table2_id1 integer.

exampel what I will do and havent a query for

1....test...test...test...test
2....mos...test...mos...mos

my tables as follow

Table1

1   1   1   1   1   
2   2   1   2   2

table2

1   test
2  mos

hope that you can understand what I trying to do, probably some easy way to get the result but I cant find it. Im glad of all help I can get.

Answer 1

You need to join to table2 with an alias, 4 different times, please note that as Mike points out, this is not a very good structure, and you are better off creating a different table to handle this one-to-many relation, instead of adding columns on table 1

 SELECT Table1.id, a.name AS name1, b.name AS name2, c.name as name3, d.name AS name4
 FROM Table1
      JOIN Table2 a on Table1.table2_id1 = a.id 
      JOIN Table2 b on Table1.table2_id2 = b.id 
      JOIN Table2 c on Table1.table2_id3 = c.id 
      JOIN Table2 d on Table1.table2_id4 = d.id