Question

I currently have 2 tables for tickets. Table 1 is tickets and table 2 is repsonses.

I currently do

select id, subject, description 
from tickets 
where subject like '%hello%';

This works but I also want to return the same fields but where hello matches the message field in the responses table.

E.g. I was hoping I could do:

select id, subject, description 
from tickets, responses 
where tickets.subject like '%hello%' OR responses.message like '%hello%'; 

ticketid in the responses table is the same as id in the tickets table.

Answer 1

If there will always be a responses record:

  select tickets.id, tickets.subject, tickets.description 
  from tickets, responses 
  where
    tickets.id = responses.id and
    ( tickets.subject like '%hello%' or 
      responses.message like '%hello%' )

If tickets can exist without responses:

  select tickets.id, tickets.subject, tickets.description 
  from tickets left outer join responses on tickets.id = responses.id
  where
    tickets.subject like '%hello%' or 
    responses.message like '%hello%'