not sure how timestamps work in MySQL, but I've written this in Oracle: CREATE TABLE USaR ( UsID char(255) null, Firstname char(255) NULL, Surname char(255) NULL, Tel char(255) NULL, Cell char(255) NULL, Email char(255) NULL ) / CREATE TABLE Tracker( UsID CHAR(255) NULL, Points CHAR(255) NULL ) / CREATE TABLE Winners( UsiD CHAR(255) NULL, DateTime DATE NULL ) / /* Inserted some values in those tables and then executed: */ select us.usid, --I couldn't get the Firstname as it's not a group by element (?) Sum(tr.points) from usar us, --in mysql you'll have to do 'usar as us' tracker tr, --tracker as tr winners wn --winners as wn where us.usid = tr.usid --here is the join magic and us.usid = wn.usid --and here AND wn.datetime < (SYSDATE - 14) --winner date has to be less than 14 days from today GROUP BY us.usid --separate per user; I hope this helps :) This will *NOT* bring you users that never won or have no points (since they don't have any record in winners table) Regards, Thiago -----Mensagem original----- De: Steven Macintyre [mailto:steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Enviada em: terça-feira, 25 de março de 2008 09:21 Para: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Assunto: mysql joins I have three tables, namely; User - UID - Firstname - Surname - Tel - Cell - Email Tracker - UID - Points Winners - UID - Datetime (0000-00-00 00:00:00) I need to get the following information from the above tables (in my logical sense) All users from user with sum(points) as points and datetime > datetime + 14 days In English, the all users must be selected, excluding the ones that have won in the last 14 days and return all the information and the sum of points I suspect I would need to use joins here ... but have no clue how to do so ... I have read up a bit and can work out inner joins from three tables, but not coping with this problem above Can someone help me out with this please? Many thanks Steven -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php