Question

I have 2 tables in ms access 2010 as below

USERS (u_id, u_name)
LOAN (l_id, l_from[ref users.u_id], l_to[ref users.u_id], l_amount)

Users
+------+--------+
| u_id | u_name |
+------+--------+ 
| 1    | abc    |
| 2    | def    |
+------+--------+

Loan
+-----+--------+------+----------+
|l_id | l_from | l_to | l_amount |
+-----+--------+------+----------+
| 1   | 2      | 1    | 100      |
| 2   | 2      | 1    | 100      |
| 3   | 1      | 1    | 50       |
+-----+--------+------+----------+

I want to select names instead of numbers(l_from & l_to) from loan table

select
  loan.l_id,
  loan.l_from,
  users.u_name user_from,
  loan.l_to,
  users.u_name as user_to,
  loan.l_amount
from loan, users
where ???

Answer 1

JOIN the users table two times like so:

SELECT
  l.l_id,
  fromusers.u_name AS user_from,
  tousers.u_name AS user_to,
  l.l_amount
FROM loan l
INNER JOIN users fromusers ON l.l_from = fromusers.u_id
INNER JOIN users tousers ON l.l_to = tousers.u_id

SQL Fiddle Demo (it is SQL Server 2008, but should be the same syntax for ms-access, I think)