Re: SELECT statement with sub-queries

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle(at)gmail(dot)com
> wrote:

> Hello *,
>
> I try to get columns from my database with a singel SELECT, but I stuck.
>
> I have 3 tables like:
>
>
> 1) categories (serial,cat)
>
> 2) manufacturers (serial,m_name)
>
> 3) products (serial,category,manufacturer,p_name)
>
>
> where the "category" and "manufacturer"
> are numerical IDs from the two tables above.
>
> So I like to replace the numerical IDs with the appropriated values,
> mean
>
> SELECT * FROM products WHERE category IN
> (SELECT categories.cat FROM categories WHERE
> categories.serial==products.category);
>
> But I get:
>
> ERROR: operator does not exist: integer==integer
> LINE1: ...gories.cat FROM categories WHERE categories.serial==products.
> category);
> ^
> Hmm, "serial" is an "integer" and the "category" and "manufacturer" too.
>
> So whats wrong with it?
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> --
> Michelle Konzack Miila ITSystems @ TDnet
> GNU/Linux Developer 00372-54541400
>

Wouldn't a simple join like the one below suffice:

Select a.*,b.cat from products as a, categories as b where
a.category=b.serial

or am I missing something?