Question

I am now having a problem sorting the data in my PHP page where the data displayed is combined of two tables as the both tables are linked by a foreign key in one of the table.

two tables are as below

Table name: Students

stu_id
stu_name
.
.
.
stu_course_id


Table name: courses

course_id
course_name

Wen displaying the data it is displayed in following format:

Student id | Student name | student course
—-1 ————–john————-engineering
—-2————–dave—————business

I am able to sort the data by name which is pretty easy but I am having difficulty sorting the data by course name. Is this possible as the course name is not in the same table as student?

Answer 1

select s.stu_id, s.stu_name, c.course_name
from students s
inner join courses c on s.stu_course_id = c.course_id
order by c.course_name asc