extracting values from same field different row using different where statements

[sunbase]

I have a table called `employment` that contains two INT references named `employer` and `employee`. As a person can be either or both I have a single table named `personnel`.

I am trying to construct a query that displays

personnel.name as `employer` where employment.employer=personnel.id

AND

personnel.name as `employee` where employment.employee=personnel.id

so it extracts multiple details from one table with different where conditions and applying different alias values

Very very new to sql so my head is starting to spin

For example my personnel file:

id name
1 David
2 Simon
3 Michael
4 Tony
5 Paul

employment file:

Job 1, Title "housea" employer 2 employee 5 - I would be looking to return the values
[1][housea][Simon][Paul]

Job 2, Title "houseb" employer 1 employee 2 - I would be looking to return the values
[1][houseb][David][Simon]

If you understand what I am trying to do can you please help

 

[Olaf Doschke]

A backtick as name delimiter always points me to MySQL, are you posting in the right forum section?

Aside of MSSQL or MySQL, the general approach to joining a table with two foreign keys (employee, employer) both pointing to one table (personnel) is doing two joins to it, joining with a table alias name, eg

Select employment.job, employment.title, employment.employee, employees.name as employeename, employment.employer, employers.name as employername
from employment 
left join [b]personnel as employees[/b] on employees.id = employment.employee
left join [b]personnel as employers[/b] on employers.id = employment.employer

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Doesn't it work for you? Too many result columns, wrongly named? That's a no brainer, simply remove unwanted result columns from code line 1 and/or rename them, too. The main ingredient is the double joining of personnel.

Bye, Olaf.