Posted by John Bokma on 03/21/06 05:13

"Stu" <stuart.ainsworth@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would help if you posted DDL and some sample data, but it sounds
> like you simply need to do a dual join on your second table using an
> alias, eg:
>
> SELECT a.*, b1.*, b2.*
> FROM tableA a JOIN TableB b1 ON a.ID = b1.ID
> JOIN TableB b2 ON aID2 = b2.ID

which gives me way too many rows :-) (or I did something very stupid)

I want for each result in a a single row, with each ID (and ID2) in TableB
resolved to an actual value.

SELECT ..., ( SELECT b.value FROM b WHERE a.ID = b.ID )
FROM a, b
WHERE a.ID2 = b.ID


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