Question

I have two tables.

Resource:
md5 (PK), link, title

Tags:
md5 (FK), category

it is a one to many relationship such that a resource can have a number of tags.
I want to be able to extract a resource that has both tags, for e.g. a resource that contains the tag ‘web’ and ‘blog’ in it. If I use ‘OR’, it will obviously return even document that contain only ‘web’ or only contain ‘blog’, but if I use AND, I get no results even though I know there are resources that contain both tags

SELECT DISTINCT tags.MD5, Resource.Title, Resource.Link, tags.Category
FROM Resource
INNER JOIN tags ON Resource.MD5 = tags.MD5
WHERE       
    (tags.Category = @tag)
OR
    (tags.Category = @tag2)
ORDER BY tags.MD5

Answer 1

You want to do like that:

select t.MD5, r.Title, r.Link, t.Category
from Resource r inner join Tags t on r.MD5 = t.MD5
where exists (select category from Tags t1 where category = @tag and t1.MD5 = r.MD5)
and exists (select category from Tags t1 where category = @tag2 and t1.MD5 = r.MD5)