Question

I have two tables. One is a ‘Users’ table. Each row (user) in the table has a unique id (primary key).

The second table is a ‘Tasks’ table. Each row in the Tasks table has a foreign key which points to the user (in the Users table) that owns that task.

Using SQL Express 2008, what query must I use to obtain a list of all tasks assigned to a user? For example, if I have a user in the Users table with a primary key of 0 and there are 10 rows in the Tasks table with a foreign key value of 0, that means that this user has 10 tasks assigned to him. I need to build a query that gives me these 10 rows from the Tasks table.

Answer 1

If you have the user PK

select tasks.*
from tasks 
where tasks.UserId = 0

if you have the user name

select tasks.*
from tasks 
inner join users on users.UserId = tasks.UserId
where users.UserName =  'Bob'