don't toss some advanced techniques my way.

I fear you're not going to get very far wo/ some "advanced techniques", assuming you consider JOINs to be advanced.

A JOIN is what you're attempting, except you haven't specified any key columns in your queries. Presumably, "name" is the primary key of db1...hopefully, "name" exists as a foreign key in db2. In which case your 2 queries get folded into a single joined query: 

SELECT db1.name, db1.age, db1.email, db2.height, db2.weight, db2.shoes
+ize
FROM db1 JOIN db2 on (db1.name = db2.name)

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(or somesuch JOIN syntax; I leave the details to you and your MySQL docs to figure that bit out.)

fixed typo in my JOIN: "JOIN db1" should be "JOIN db2"

Perl Contrarian & SQL fanboy

In reply to Re: 2 mysql selects in one statement by renodino
in thread 2 mysql selects in one statement by Anonymous Monk

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