Brilliant, this one works perfect!  Thank you for the quick reply!

Ben

Rolando Edwards wrote:

select distinct email_address from people P,registered_products A,registered_products B
where P.person_id = A.person_id
and   A.product_type = "Product A"
and   P.person_id = B.person_id
and   B.product_type = "Product B"
;

Give it a try !!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Ventura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2007 1:22:00 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: Complex query

I have a database tracking registrations of software products with two related tables, "registered_products" and "people". I need to pull a list of email addresses from the people table BUT I only want to pull people records who own very specific combinations of products from the registered_products table.
Let's say I want people who own both Product A AND Product B... My first guess 
is to write a query like this:

select distinct email_address from people join registered_products on people.person_id = registered_products.person_id where registered_products.product_type = "Product A" and registered_products.product_type = "Product B"

However, this does not work, no rows are returned. When I think about it, that makes sense, because rows are evaluated one at a time, and no single product row can simultaneously have two values for the column "product_type".
I need to only get results from a person record that has two related registered_product rows, one 
with a value of "Product A" and one with "Product B".

What is the best way to write a query to do this?
Thanks,
Ben




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