jeff.ward@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm fairly new to SQL, so this is probably a dumb way to form this > query, but I don't know another. > > I want to see the usernames of all the users who have logged on > today. "users" is my table of users with id's and username's. > "session_stats" is my table of user sessions where I store site > activity, and it has a user_id column. > > SELECT username FROM users WHERE id IN (SELECT DISTINCT user_id FROM > session_stats $dateClause AND user_id!=0) Jeff, It looks like you need a JOIN instead: SELECT username from users JOIN session_stats ON (users.id = session_stats.user_id) WHERE $dateClause AND user_id != 0); Check that you also have indexes on both of those columns (check the docs for "CREATE INDEX" for details. ) Mark