Get entry by entry

Question

I have the following scenario:

Articles Table

id | description | supplierID
_____________________________
1  | Testarticle | 1

Supplier Table

id | description 
_______________________
1  | Example Industries

When reading out an article, for example SELECT * FROM articles WHERE ID=1 , i also need the supplier description in my result.

What would be an appropriate way to achieve this?

Answer 1

select a.id as ArticleID, a.description as ArticleDescription, a.SupplierID,
s.description as SupplierDescription
from articles a
inner join supplier s on a.supplierID = s.supplierID
where a.id = 1

Answer 2

Try to Join these two table

SELECT  a.*, b.*
FROM    articles a
INNER JOIN Supplier b
ON a.SupplierID = b.id
WHERE   a.id = 1

Check out how INNER JOIN works.

Answer 3

you need to join Both tables,

SELECT  a.*, b.*
FROM    articles a
        INNER JOIN Supplier b
            ON a.SupplierID = b.ID
WHERE   a.ID = 1

• SQLFiddle Demo

To learn more about joins, here's a great reference for it

• Visual Representation of SQL Joins