MYSQL select query based on another tables entries

Question

I have stumped on this as I am a total beginner in MySql.

Here is a the basic of how the two tables are formed

Table 1 id,product_id, product_name

Answer 1

It's pretty simple to join two tables:

select t1.* 
from Table1 t1
join Table2 t2 on t1.product_id = t2.product_id
where t2.active = 'Y'

Answer 2

You could use JOIN (as Fosco pointed out), but you can do the same thing in the WHERE clause. I've noticed that it's a bit more intuitive method than JOIN especially for someone who's learning SQL. This query joins the two tables according to product_id and returns those products that are active. I'm assuming "active" is boolean type.

SELECT t1.*
FROM Table1 t1, Table2 t2
WHERE t1.product_id = t2.product_id AND t2.active = TRUE

W3Schools has a good basic level tutorial of different kinds of JOINs. See INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL JOIN.