Can anyone help me optimise the way I do this?
I have two tables, 'article' and 'user'. Article has a user_id which related to the user table.
When selecting all articles from the the article table, I'd like to be able to get the username of the user_id. Currently I'm doing this as a separate query whilst looping through the articles, but this is obviously causing way too many DB calls.
some pseudo code:
SELECT * FROM article
foreach article
{
SELECT username FROM user WHERE id=$user_id
}Perhaps I need a join, or maybe just a more complex query -- can any one lend a hand?
My guess is maybe something like
SELECT article.title, article.user_id, user.username FROM article, user WHERE user.id = article.user_id
--- Justin French http://indent.com.au
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