Hello all,

I'm new at designing/connecting db's and retrieving values, if someone has a link to a post or something that would be wonderful.

Here is what I'm trying to do, learn, and understand;

I have db (SQLite) with couple tables and a table with a foreign key. Using information from foreign key table, I'd like to retrieve actual data from primary table. 

Example:

user_tbl
id    name
----    ---------
1    test1
2    test2

topic_tbl
id    topic
----    ---------
1    topic1
2    topic2

detail_tbl
id    detail    name_id    topic_id
1    detail1    1    1
2    detail2    1    2
3    detail3    2    1
etc

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In perl, I'd like to retrieve one for the details and assign actual string value from primary tables for name_id and topic_id. Any hints or pointers in the right direction is greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

In reply to Retrieving data from db with foreign keys by acondor

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