MYSQL: How to JOIN two tables on the same query referencing the same table twice

Question

I have two tables. I\'m trying to JOIN the sample two tables below with table 1 referencing Table 2 twice. For example if I look at Table 1: Group 2 and Members 7, it should loo

Answer 1

Hard to tell exactly what you need from that description but aliasing the tables may be what you need. It works like this:

SELECT t1.x, t2_1.y, t2_2.z
FROM table1 AS t1
JOIN table2 AS t2_1 ON t1.whatever = t2_1.whatever
JOIN table2 AS t2_2 ON t1.whatever = t2_2.whatever
...