Yes, it works with aliasing one or both.

On 9/12/04 10:00 PM, "Troy Sosamon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Looks like you about have it.
> I am not sure if what you have will work or not.  I would alias both tables
> and save some typing like this:
> 
> 
> SELECT R1.UID, R1.firstname, R1.lastname,
> R1.email, R1.referrer, senders.firstname, senders.lastname,
> senders.email
> FROM recipients R1, recipients senders
> WHERE senders.UID = R1.referrer
> 
> It will depend on your db, but it might get confused when you alias one
> instance of the table and not the other one.
> 
> Troy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dumas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:29 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Self-join problem
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/12/04 1:20 PM, "Roland Dumas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ok, I came to the conclusion that you can't do a self join using the
> search
>> action. Have to do a direct dbms and create an alias of the table and then
>> join it with the actual table.
>> 
>> As in 
>> 
>> SELECT recipients.UID, recipients.firstname, recipients.lastname,
>> recipients.email, recipients.referrer, senders.firstname,
> senders.lastname,
>> senders.email
>> FROM recipients, recipients as senders
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> - an SQL greenhorn -
> 
> 
> Sorry, forgot to paste the important line:
> 
> SELECT recipients.UID, recipients.firstname, recipients.lastname,
> recipients.email, recipients.referrer, senders.firstname, senders.lastname,
> senders.email
> FROM recipients, recipients as senders
> WHERE senders.UID = recipients.referrer
> 
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