How can I query using a foreign key in MySQL?

Question

Right now I have a small database with two tables that look something like this:

    users table
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    id  name   status_id
    1   Bo         


        

Answer 1

Your users table does not have the value of approved in it. It is in your statuses table. When you request status_id you are going to get that value back from that query. You have to do a JOIN ON status_id to make this work out I think. Or do a second query.