Getting a column of data from a different table MySQL

Question

I'm not very competent with MySQL joins so I would appreciate some help.

I have two tables. Lets call them X and Y .

X is the main table, however I want to get one column of data from table Y where the site_id in table X corresponds to the site_id in table Y .

Example scheme for table X : id, site_id, notes

Example scheme for table Y : id, site_id, name

I would like to then create a query to have id, site_id, notes, name where name corresponds to the site_id

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Answer 1

SELECT
    X.id, 
    X.site_id, 
    X.notes, 
    Y.name
FROM
    X
    LEFT JOIN Y ON X.site_id = Y.site_id