Question

I have 2 tables:

1) game_follower (stores which user is following which game):

___________________________
| ID  | game_id | user_id |
| 1   |  1      |  1      |
| 2   |  2      |  1      |

2) videos:

__________________________________
| ID  | game_id | content | data |
| 1   |  2      |  blah   | blah |
| 2   |  1      |  blah   | blah |

I’m trying to implement a twitter-style following system, but I’m having trouble writing a query that does the following:

• select multiple game_ids WHERE user_id = “1”
• from that list of game_ids, select from videos where game_id = (multiple game ids that have been selected from the first query)

I can do it with separate queries but I’ve been told that using multiple queries is bad for performance, so how do I do this in with one query?

Answer 1

try this

SELECT v.game_id
FROM videos v
INNER JOIN game_follower gf ON gf.game_id = v.game_id
WHERE gf.user_id = 1