How can I access the data of another table in sqlite?

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Hello. I am learning SQLite and I am just a beginner. I have two tables in my database and I am coding some simple queries. If I run the

SQL

.schema

command then it is shown for datatypes and columns in my database:

CREATE TABLE songs (
    id INTEGER,
    name TEXT,
    artist_id INTEGER,
    danceability REAL,
    energy REAL,
    key INTEGER,
    loudness REAL,
    speechiness REAL,
    valence REAL,
    tempo REAL,
    duration_ms INTEGER
);
CREATE TABLE artists (
    id INTEGER,
    name TEXT
);

I have one table for songs and one table for artists. Every song is for one artist. Now I want to get the name of a song in which the artist's name is ZZZZZ, but I do not know how to do it.

What I have tried:

I have tried this query:

SELECT name FROM songs , SELECT name FROM artists WHERE name = "Post Malone";

But it raises an error that :

Error: near "SELECT": syntax error

And actually, I could not solve it. I will be really grateful for your help and advice even if you share a useful link would be great.

Posted 10-Sep-21 7:10am

Aylin Naebzadeh

Updated 10-Sep-21 8:39am

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PIEBALDconsult 10-Sep-21 14:04pm

You want an INNER JOIN.

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Member 15329613 · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-10T08:39:00

I suggest you go through some basic tutorials because that will be much faster to learn.
Example:

SQL

SELECT s.name AS song_name, a.name AS artist_name 
FROM songs s -- the s here means I can now refer to this table using s instead of typing out the whole word.  Shortcut
INNER JOIN artists a ON s.artist_id = a.id  -- give me the row in artists table where the song's artist id matches the id in the artists table
WHERE a.name = 'ZZZZZ'