Question

I want to get data from two tables in my database. Here’s what my tables might look like:

• table 1 with fields id, author, profession, country
• table 2 with fields id, quote, author, category

I want to select quote and author from table 2 and the corresponding profession from table 1, with the same author in both tables.

How do I construct a query that does this?

Answer 1

Supposing that your author column contains unique identifiers for authors, try:

SELECT t2.quote, t2.author, t1.profession
FROM table2 t2
  LEFT JOIN table1 t1 ON t2.author = t1.author