Question

Ok so I have a table for notes in my database and a table for users in my database. Lets say notes table looks like this:

NoteId   NoteTitle    NoteAuth
--------------------------------
1        TempTitle    254
2        TempTitle2   871

and Users table looks like:

UserId   UserName
-------------------
254      Bob
871      Jim

How can I select from the Note table but select the NoteAuth as the UserName from the Users table. Basically how can I use a primary key without a primary key being set up on the table.

Answer 1

You can try something like this

SELECT Notes.NoteId, Notes.NoteTitle, Notes.NoteAuth
FROM Notes
INNER JOIN Users ON Notes.NoteAuth = Users.UserId
WHERE Users.UserName = 'Bob'

Edit

Here is a version that returns the user name for a specified note author.

SELECT Users.UserName, Notes.NoteId, Notes.NoteTitle, Notes.NoteAuth
FROM Notes
INNER JOIN Users ON Notes.NoteAuth = Users.UserId
WHERE Notes.NoteAuth = 254