MySQL join & search - mysql

Question

I have a problem with joining some tables, heres my structure:
tbl_imdb:
fldID fldTitle fldImdbID
1 Moviename 0000001
tbl_genres:
fldID fldGenre
1 Action
2 Drama
tbl_genres_rel:
fldID fldMovieID fldGenreID
1 1 1
2 1 2
What I’m trying to do is a query that will find all movies that is both an action movie and drama, is this possible to do without a subquery, if so, how?
What I'm trying right now is:
SELECT tbl_imdb.*
FROM tbl_imdb
LEFT JOIN tbl_imdb_genres_rel ON ( tbl_imdb.fldID = tbl_imdb_genres_rel.fldMovieID )
LEFT JOIN tbl_imdb_genres ON ( tbl_imdb_genres_rel.fldGenreID = tbl_imdb_genres.fldID )
WHERE tbl_imdb_genres.fldGenre = 'Drama'
AND tbl_imdb_genres.fldGenre = 'Action';
But this dosnt work, however it does work if I only keep one of the two WHERE's, but thats not what I want.

Answer 1

Two ways to do it:
1
SELECT tbl_imdb.*
FROM tbl_imdb
INNER JOIN tbl_genres_rel rel_action
ON tbl_imdb.fldID = rel_action.fldMovieID
INNER JOIN tbl_genres genre_action
ON rel_action.fldGenreId = genre_action.fldID
AND 'Action' = genre_action.fldGenre
INNER JOIN tbl_genres_rel rel_drama
ON tbl_imdb.fldID = rel_drama.fldMovieID
INNER JOIN tbl_genres genre_drama
ON rel_drama.fldGenreId = genre_drama.fldID
AND 'Drama' = genre_drama.fldGenre
This method is on the same path as your original solution. 2 differences:
The join should be inner, not left because you're trying to get movies that certainly have the corresponding genre entry
Since you want to find 2 different generes, you'll have to do the join with tbl_genres_rel and tbl_genres twice, once for each particular genre you're interested in.
2
SELECT tbl_imdb.*
FROM tbl_imdb
INNER JOIN tbl_genres_rel
ON tbl_imdb.fldID = tbl_genres_rel.fldMovieID
INNER JOIN tbl_genres
ON tbl_genres_rel.fldGenreId = tbl_genres.fldID
AND tbl_genres.fldGenre IN ('Action', 'Drama')
GROUP BY tbl_imdb.fldID
HAVING COUNT(*) = 2
Again, the basic join plan is the same. Difference here is that we join to the tbl_genres_rel and tbl_genres path just once. This on itself fetches all genres for one film, and then filters for the one's you're interested in. The ones that qualify will now have 2 rows for each distinct value of tbl_imdb.fldId. The GROUP BY aggregates on that, flattening that into one row. By asserting in the HAVING clause that we have exactly 2 rows, we ensure that we keep only those rows that have both the genres.
(Note that this assumes that there is a unique constraint on tbl_genres_rel over {fldMovieID, fldGenreID}. If such a constraint is not present, you should consider adding it.)

Answer 2

LEFT JOIN is not applicable in your case because records should exist on both tables. And you need to count the instances of the movie
SELECT *
FROM tbl_imdb a
INNER JOIN tbl_genres_rel b
on a.fldID = fldMovieID
INNER JOIN tbl_genres c
on c.fldGenreID = b.fldID
WHERE c.fldGenre IN ('Drama', 'Action')
GROUP BY a.Moviename
HAVING COUNT(*) > 1