Question

I have a question about getting information from a MySQL database.

The context is as follows:

I have 2 tables, one called brand and the other model (about cars).

The brand table has 2 columns: id and name.
The table model has 3 columns: id, brand, name.

The brand column in the table model stores the corresponding brand id according the table brand.

For a consult, my standar query is:

SELECT * FROM model

… to get all the information in the table model, e.g.

id=1, brand=1, model=modelName.

What changes should I make to the query to get the brand name and not just its id, from a consult to the table model? e.g

id=1, brand=brandName, model=modelName

Answer 1

Try an inner join

SELECT model.id, brand.brandName, model.modelName 
FROM model
INNER JOIN brand on model.id = brand.id