Question

I have two tables : one table it matchs and the other is teams. In matches, I have a date, the time and two IDs (the two teams). In teams I have an ID and the name of the team. What I want to do is get the list of matchs with the names of the teams.
I know the INNER JOIN can do this but I’m not sure how … here’s what I have :

SELECT teams.name AS team1, teams.name AS team2, matchs.id, matchs.date, matchs.time
FROM matchs
INNER JOIN teams ON teams.id=matchs.team1

Obviously, all I get is the name of the team1. How can I have both team names?

Thank you

Answer 1

You want to do something like below. Just use aliases to differentiate the two joins and make your code more expressive.

SELECT teams1.name AS team1, teams2.name AS team2, matchs.id, matchs.date, matchs.time
FROM matchs
    INNER JOIN teams AS teams1
        ON teams1.id=matchs.team1
    INNER JOIN teams AS teams2 
        ON teTeams2ams.id=matchs.team2