>From MS-SQL Server Manual: A subquery is a SELECT query that returns a single value and is nested inside a SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement, or inside another subquery. A subquery can be used anywhere an expression is allowed. Unfortunately you do not have Sub-queries in mySQL ... Try this script... <?php $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', '') or die('Could not connect'); mysql_select_db('test') or die('Could not select database'); // Declare vars.. $sports = $graduation = $both_activities = array(); // Get all the schools where there is "Sports" $sql = "select distinct sid from school_highlight_details where hid = '2'"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die("Query failed"); while (list($school_id) = mysql_fetch_row ($result)) $sports[] = $school_id; mysql_free_result($result); // Get all the schools where there is "Graduation" $sql = "select distinct sid from school_highlight_details where hid = '4'"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die("Query failed"); while (list($school_id) = mysql_fetch_row ($result)) $graduation[] = $school_id; mysql_free_result($result); // Find common in both.. $both_activities = array_intersect($sports, $graduation); $condition = '('; foreach($both_activities as $anything => $school_id) $condition .= "$school_id, "; $condition = substr($condition, 0, -2) . ')'; $sql = "Select sID, school_name FROM school where sID in $condition"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die("Query failed"); while (list($sID, $school_name) = mysql_fetch_row ($result)) echo "$sID. $school_name<br>"; mysql_free_result($result); mysql_close($link); ?> If you are using mySQL 4, read on UNION ... (SELECT a FROM table_name WHERE a=10 AND B=1 ORDER BY a LIMIT 10) UNION (SELECT a FROM table_name WHERE a=11 AND B=2 ORDER BY a LIMIT 10) ORDER BY a; -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php