Suppose I have a SQL database my_table
of the following form where one column contains the id of another row. How can I select both the name column of the given row and the name of the underlying id row?
For example, selecting ids 1 and 2 via SELECT name, ? FROM my_table WHERE id IN (1, 2)
should return:
name, underlying_name Apple,, Pear, Strawberry
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Answer
Self-join, I presume:
select a.id, a.name, b.name from my_table a left join my_table b on b.id = a.underlying_id order by a.id;