Question

I have a database with three tables, a household table, an adults table and a users table. The Household table contains two foreign keys, iAdult1ID and iAdult2ID. The Users table has a iUserID primary key and the Adult table has a corresponding iUserID foreign key. One of the columns in the Users table is strUsername, an e-mail address.

I am trying to write a query that will allow me to search for an e-mail address for either adult that has a relation to the household. So I have two questions, assuming that all the values are not null, how can I do this?

And two, in reality, iAdult2ID can be null, is it still possible to write a query to do this?

Thanks for your help. Let me know if you need any more information.

Answer 1

Yes, you just left join to the same table twice:

select u1.strUsername, u2.strUsername
FROM Household h
LEFT JOIN Adult a1 on a1.ID = h.iAdult1ID
LEFT JOIN Users u1 on u1.ID = a1.iUserID
LEFT JOIN Adult a2 on a2.ID = h.iAdult2ID
LEFT JOIN Users u2 ON u2.ID = a2.iUserID