Question

I got a scenario where i got a table with Events(header, description) and a table with Tags(tag, event_id) that contains tags that are linked to each Event.

What I would like to do is to be able to search for a specific word in the Events-table and at the same time search for the word in the Tags-table and get the Events that was found.

I’m abled to search the events with the following SQL

"SELECT events.* FROM events WHERE (header = 'query')"

But when I try to include the tags with a join I get nothing in return

"SELECT events.* FROM events INNER JOIN tags ON tags.events_id =
events.id AND WHERE (events.header = 'query' OR tags.tag = 'query')"

Is there some other way in which I can perform the join or do I need to perform two queries, one for the events and one getting the events which got a matching tag?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Remove the AND before WHERE

SELECT events.* 
FROM events INNER JOIN tags ON tags.events_id = events.id -- NO AND
WHERE (events.header = 'query' OR tags.tag = 'query')