[SQL] Help me with Joins!

Table Vendor consists of a Vendor ID (vendorid) and the Vendor (vendor). Table Type consists of the Type ID (typeid) and the Type (type).

The equipment table consists of id, vendorid, typeid, partnum, details, cost, markup

What I need is to query all records in Equipment and have the vendorid field filled in from the matching "vendor" record in the vendor table and have the typeid filled in from the matching "type" record in the type table.

SELECT vendor.vendor as vendor, type.type as type, id, partnum, details, cost, markup from vendor, type, equipment where vendor.vendorid = equipment.vendorid and type.typeid = equipment.typeid.

I know that SQL is incorrect but I hope you can understand what I want from reading it.

p.s. this is against MySQL

[AKA]

I dont use MySQL but I am thinking of installing a Linux machine and MySQL. Do you access MySQL with VB ?

I don't see any strange with you SQL.

You could refrase it little. What error messge do you get ?

SELECT
 vendor.vendor,
 type.type,
 equipment.id,
 equipment.partnum,
 equipment.details,
 equipment.cost,
 equipment.markup
FROM
 vendor,
 type,
 equipment
WHERE
 vendor.vendorid = equipment.vendorid
AND
 type.typeid = equipment.typeid.

AKA,

You could try something like the following, which
should do the same as the stuff you had before. Note that if any of the matching fields are null then the row will not be returned, if you want the rows anyway then you may want to use another type of join.

I have never used MySQL but the code below should work on SQL Server and the syntax should be ANSI compliant, I think!

SELECT
vendor.vendor,
type.type,
equipment.id,
equipment.partnum,
equipment.details,
equipment.cost,
equipment.markup
FROM vendor
INNER JOIN type on vendor.vendorid = equipment.vendorid
INNER JOIN equipment on equipment.typeid = type.typeid