Question

I have a table called Follow, with three fields:

• Id (autoincrement int),
• UserId (int),
• Following (int)

If I have data like this:

ID    UserId    Following   
--------------------------
1       2          3
2       3          2
3       2          5
4       2          6
5       3          5

How would I find user 2’s friends (ie: user 2 is following them, and they follow user 2)

I guess, in other words, if user ‘a’ follows user ‘b’, and user ‘b’ follows user ‘a’, how do I select user A ??

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT a.UserId, a.Following
  FROM Follow a INNER JOIN Follow b
    ON a.UserId = b.Following
   AND b.UserId = a.Following