Here I have three tables authors
, books_has_authors
and books
.
Books_has_author
is an intermediate table which contains only the primary keys form other two tables. I am trying to write an sql query which will return me all the books name written by a particular author. I am new to relational database concepts as well as writing queries for relational databases. I know some join
queries but I'm really confused how to use them for fetching information through an intermediate table. Any help will be appreciated ! :)
You only need to add an additional JOIN, like this:
SELECT b.book_id, b.book_name, a.author_id, a.author_name
FROM books b
JOIN books_has_author ba ON ba.books_book_id = b.book_id
JOIN author a ON ba.author_author_id = a.author_id
WHERE a.author_id = xxx
use JOIN
like that :-
SELECT *
FROM books
JOIN books_has_author ON books_has_author.books_book_id = books.book_id
JOIN author ON books_has_author.author_author_id = author.author_id
WHERE author.author_id = '123'
Try this:
SELECT b.* FROM books b
INNER JOIN books_has_author bha
ON bha.books_book_id = b.book_id
WHERE bha.author_author_id = "$$YOUR AUTHOR ID"