Question

I’ve got a MS SQL 2008 table called “fruits” that looks like this:

id   name           category_id
--   ------------   -----------
 1   Apples                   4
 2   Bananas                  6
 3   Crackers                 6

and another table called “categories” with:

id   category_name
--   -------------
 4   Foo
 6   Bar

How do I produce a query that will return results that look like:

fruit_name  fruit_category_name
----------  -------------------
Apples      Foo
Bananas     Bar
Crackers    Bar

(The columns must be exactly that name because I’m trying to write a CSV.)

Answer 1

SELECT f.name AS fruit_name, c.category_name AS fruit_category_name
FROM fruits AS f
INNER JOIN categories AS c ON c.id = f.category_id