Re: multiple lookup per row

Gary,

First: Go out and buy "SQL for Smarties". Now. Read it.

However, I'll give you this one as a freebie:

> I've got a table 'phones' which has an indexed key 'pid' of type
> int4, and a
> phone number of type varchar(12).
>
> I've then got a table 'members' which as an index key 'mid' of type
> int4.

SELECT members.mid, members.name, members.address, hp.phone AS
home_phone, wp.phone AS work_phone, cp.phone as cell_phone
FROM members LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT mid, phone FROM phones WHERE ptype = 'home') hp
ON members.mid = hp.mid
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT mid, phone FROM phones WHERE ptype = 'work') wp
ON members.mid = wp.mid
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT mid, phone FROM phones WHERE ptype = 'cell') cp
ON members.mid = cp.mid
ORDER BY members.name;

You're experiencing the usual problem encountered by procedural
programmers when they first start on SQL. SQL is a declarative
language, and requires a different knid of thinking than procedural
languages. Thus the use of table aliasing and subselects above.

Have fun!

-Josh

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