Nested Select Query In MySql

Question

Hi I have two tables in my database. suppose table 1 has a name of login and table two has user_info

Table Structure

login

uid : integer

user_name : varchar

password : varchar

tbl_name : varchar

user_info

id : int

name : varchar

.....

suppose in login table for uid =1 tble_name is user_info

then how can I get contens of user_info table from one query ?

SELECT * FROM ( SELECT login.tbl_name  FROM db.login  WHERE uid = 1 )as a

but this returns "user_info" is there any way to do this instead of writing two queries ?

Answer 1

I think the only way to do this is using a dynamic statement, so perhaps using a prepared statement could work for you:

SET @id = 1;
SELECT @table := tbl_name from login where uid = @id;
SET @s = CONCAT('SELECT * FROM ', @table, ' WHERE id = ', @id);
PREPARE stmt FROM @s;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;

This would return the value for id=1 in the table stored in the tbl_name column in the login table.