MySQL getting data from two tables

Question

Im having some issues getting the result I want from two tables

table #1: history

  customer_id  |  Action
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  217          |  buy
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  218          |  sell
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  219          |  hold
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 table #2: Customers

  customer_id    |  name
 ----------------------------
  217            |  Alan
 ----------------------------
  218            |  Jan
 ----------------------------
  219            |  Rick

I have a really long query now, but essentially I want to add to match the name with the amount. I tried this but it didn't work:

(SELECT action AS action FROM "history` LEFT JOIN ON " customer(customer_id=customer_id)`)

I'm not really familiar with doing queries so any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

It should be this:

SELECT h.Action AS action
   FROM history h
   LEFT JOIN Customers c
   ON h.customer_id = c.customer_id

You either need to specify the tables or create an alias with which to associate columns/data.

Answer 2

Is a simple join

select action
from  history
left join Customers on Customers.Customer_id = history.customer_id

and you can confirm using

select history.customer_id, Customers.Customer_id history.action , Customers.name
from  history
left join Customers on Customers.Customer_id = history.customer_id

Answer 3

You can JOIN tables like this:

SELECT history.action AS Action ,Customers.name AS Name
FROM `history`
LEFT JOIN `Customers` ON history.customer_id = Customers.customer_id;