Question

I have three tables which i have joined ..but the manner in which i have to display them is a little difficult for me to understand.I am trying to group them and not getting the desired result.

Sports_Name

Id |  Name
---------
1     Football
2     Cricket
3     Hockey   
4     Tenis


Teams

Id  |  Sport_Id | Team_Name
----------------------------
101      1         Manchester United
103      2         Australia
104      2         India
109      1         Real Madrid
110      3         New Zeland


Player_Name

Id  |  Team_Id |  Player_Name
------------------------------
1       101         Rooney
2       104         Tendulkar
3       103         Ponting
4       109         Ronaldo
5       101         Van Persie
6       110         Simond

I need to display this information in the following manner..

**Football**    
Manchester United -Rooney
Manchester United -Van Persie
Real Madrid -Ronaldo

**Cricket**
India-Tendulkar
Australia-Ponting

**Hockey**
New Zeland -Simond

and something similar for tenis

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Answer 1

Is this what you want?

SELECT sports_name.name, teams.team_name, player_name.player_name  FROM player_name
JOIN 
  teams ON
player_name.team_ID = teams.ID
JOIN 
  sports_name on
sports_name.id = teams.sport_id
order by sports_name.name, team_name

This gets all the data in order then you just need to use your presentation layer to use sports.name as group header.

This produces

name team_name player_name
Cricket Australia Ponting
Cricket india Tendulkar
Football Man u Rooney
Football Man u RVP
Football Real Madrid Ronaldo
Hockey N Z Simond