Question

I have two tables that I’d like to join

Right now I just do :

SELECT * FROM (default_insurance) 
JOIN default_profiles ON uid = default_profiles.id 
WHERE `uid` = '1

problem is that both default_insurance and default_profiles contains a column named company, and I only want the one from default_insurance, but is there a way to make a join that will automatically prefer columns from one of the tables WITHOUT having to SELECT (all columns that I want)

Answer 1

You can always specify what exactly do you need (+use table aliases):

SELECT t1.*, t2.company AS default_insurance_company
FROM default_profiles t1 LEFT JOIN default_insurance t2
ON t1.uid = t2.id
WHERE t1.uid = 1

(MySQL example)

Above will return all columns from t1 and additionally column company from t2, but on your result it will be named default_insurance_company.