SQL query return data from multiple tables

Question

I would like to know the following:

• how to get data from multiple tables in my database?
• what types of methods are there to do this?
• what are

Answer 1

Hopes this makes it find the tables as you're reading through the thing:

jsfiddle

mysql> show columns from colors;                                                         
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+           
| id    | int(3)      | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| color | varchar(15) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| paint | varchar(10) | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
+-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+