Question

I have one column called ‘speeding’ in a table containing many other columns. This column contains an integer that is foreign key to an entry on a table named Speeding. This table has columns 1-25 and an id that is referenced by the ‘speeding’ column from the first table.

Besides using join, is there any setting I can set on ‘speeding’ to make it automatically pull the associated data from the table Speeding?

Answer 1

You could create a view, a view is basically a SQL statement that is stored on the MySQL server and acts like a table

CREATE VIEW ViewName AS
SELECT tbl1.data, tbl2.speeding
FROM tbl1
INNER JOIN tbl2 ON tbl2.key = tbl1.key;

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-view.html

You then use the view as you would use any table

SELECT data, speeding
FROM ViewName