Question

I’m trying to join 5 different tables. They each have a

Name column, Id Column and Exp column

Other than that, there is nothing completely the same about all of them.

SELECT name FROM `weapons`,`arrows`,`trees`,`ores`,`bars` ORDER BY exp DESC

Is all I can come up with, which it says Name is ambiguous. Thanks!

This is like 5 separate user tables that I’m trying to combine into one big list

Answer 1

You may want to use one table prefix to identify the table from which, you want to retrieve name e.g. below:

 SELECT w.name FROM weapons w, arrows a, trees t, ores o, bars b ORDER BY exp DESC

I think you are missing the join conditions as well.

Your query should look like:

SELECT w.name 
FROM weapons w JOIN arrows a
     ON w.id = a.id
     JOIN trees t
     ON a.id = t.id
     JOIN ores o 
     ON t.id = o.id
     JOIN  bars b 
     ON o.id = b.id
ORDER BY exp DESC;

Or if you want to to a union --> combine rows from all tables then :

 SELECT name 
 FROM weapons 
 UNION ALL
 SELECT name 
 FROM arrows
 UNION ALL
 SELECT name 
 FROM trees
 UNION ALL
 SELECT name 
 FROM ores
 UNION ALL
 SELECT name 
 FROM bars;