In a join, how to prefix all column names with the table it came from

Question

I\'m analysing a rather horrible legacy database/codebase, trying to reduce server load by combining queries into joins (including an email alert cron job that typically inv

Answer 1

You could name the fields in your query and give them aliases:

SELECT     ah.whateverfield1 AS 'ah_field1',
           ah.whateverfield2 AS 'ah_field2',
           l.whateverfield3 AS 'l.field3',
           [....]
FROM       class_alerts_holding ah 
INNER JOIN class_listings l ON l.id = ah.lid 
INNER JOIN class_users u ON u.id = ah.uid
LEFT JOIN  class_prodimages pi ON pi.pid = ah.lid

Its a bit of work to manually set up if you have that many fields, but you can simplify this with this query...

SHOW FULL FIELDS FROM your_table_name;

...and a good text editor and copy & paste.