You can use joins to do this job, if you dont know how to use joins then
please let me know ,so i can form the query for you

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:57 PM, major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> How is it possible to select multiple items from the same column.  For
> example, I need to retrieve an employee name and a boss's name, based
> on their id, from one name column.  Is it possible to get beyond
> "SELECT name FROM name_list WHERE name_list.id=complay.employee_id"
> and then "SELECT name FROM name_list WHERE
> name_list.id=company.boss_id" ?
>
> These are the tables:
> name_list
> id | name
> company
> employee_id | boss_id
>
> Thanks in advance.
> >
>

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