Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key

2004-01-31 Thread Anony Mous
I must say, I'm really appreciative with the responses from this list. Thanks to all! -Original Message- From: elein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 31, 2004 12:10 PM To: Anony Mous Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key PostgreSQL Ge

Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key

2004-01-31 Thread elein
PostgreSQL General Bits Issue #56 has an article on Join Basics which also has an example of multiple table joins. http://cookie.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/56.php --elein [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:03:35PM -0700, Anony Mous wrote: > Hi, > > > > I??m fairly new to this

Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key

2004-01-31 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 31, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Anony Mous wrote: Actually, given that there may not always be a backup_employee field (can be null) I think I'm forced to use an outer join to return all team leader records regardless if a matching backup_employee record exists. yup. Actually, I hadn't seen the othe

Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key

2004-01-30 Thread Anony Mous
m: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 30, 2004 11:21 PM To: Anony Mous Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:03 AM, Anony Mous wrote: > Table #1 > employee_id (pk) > employee_name  > > Table #2

Re: [GENERAL] Two joins on same foreign key

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:03 AM, Anony Mous wrote: Table #1 employee_id (pk) employee_name  Table #2 teamleader_employee_id backup_employee_id  both fields in table 2 need to do a lookup in table 1 to get the name of the actual employee.  Do I need to use nested queries to accomplish this?  Any help