Construction of a request

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I find it hard to build a query. Knowing the nickname of the user, I want to display the name of his group of assignment (attribute name of the table groups). The id attribute of the table groups is related to the attribute table id_object of users_groups.

I thought about this query:

select name from groups where id = (select id_group from users_groups where id_object = (select id_user from users where nickname = "foo");

But is there not something cleaner and simpler than subqueries?

[Ashok.M]

There are more simple:

SELECT name FROM groups, users, user_groups WHERE id = id_groups AND id_object = id_user AND nickname LIKE "foo";

If the three tables are in the same basis otherwise it must use the inner join

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To explain the problem, I changed in the post the unique identifier of the table users. Thus, id became id_user. But I am working on a relational database schema that I can not change. The complaint advised me logically generates this error message:

# 1052 - Column 'id' in where clause is ambiguous

[switchblade327]

Add the table name like this:

SELECT name FROM groups, users, user_groups WHERE groups.id = users_groups.id_groups AND users_groups.id_object = users.id_user AND nickname LIKE "foo";

I added the name of the table for every id in case they were called id in all reality

You can also give a name to each table in the FROM clause and, for simplicity:

SELECT name FROM groups g, users u, user_groups ug WHERE g.id = ug.id_groups AND ug.id_object = u.id_user AND nickname LIKE "foo";

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Thank you switchblade327 for additional info. It works correctly. In fact this is straightforward.