Join 3 tables in SQLite database

Question

I have 3 tables in SQLite database:

Songs:

_id | name | length | artist_id (foreign key) | album_id (foreign key)

Answer 1

Using an explicit JOIN instead of an implicit one, the following should get what you want, although it is curious that your implicit join syntax did not return correct results in the first place. I have used a LEFT JOIN, to account for songs which do not have an associated artist or album, but that may not be necessary for your data set and an INNER JOIN could be used instead.

I have also added column aliases to eliminate ambiguity when fetching rows, since you have similar column names in most of your tables (id, name).

SELECT
  Songs._id AS song_id,
  Songs.name AS song_name, 
  Songs.length, 
  Songs.artist_id AS artist_id, 
  Artists.name AS artist_name, 
  Songs.album_id AS album_id, 
  Albums.name AS album_name
FROM 
 Songs 
 LEFT JOIN Artists ON Songs.artist_id = Artists._id
 LEFT JOIN Albums ON Songs.album_id = Albums._id