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 [SQL]How to select based on many-to-many relationship. 
		
		
		I'm embarrassed to ask this, but I have limited SQL experience. 
	I have a many to many relationship, and I need to select rows in one table based on more than one value in the other table. For example if you have a recipe table, an ingredient table, and an intersection relation then what would you need to do select all recipes based on two or more ingredients? So the tables would be: RECIPE(RecipeID, RecipeName) INGREDIENT(IngredientID,IngredientName) RECIPEINGREDIENT(IngredientID, RecipeID)  | 
		
 Wow... I just can't figure this one out O_o 
	Something using a subquery maybe?  | 
		
 Please note this is totally untested but it seems logical to me and should be syntactically correct. Its worth a try anyway. SQL gurus reading this may have a more efficient way to do it too, i'm far from an expert. Anyway, here goes: 
	Code: 
	SELECT *Worth a try welshbyte  | 
		
 That looks good. I'll try it out. I got it working using a subquery, but this may be better. It is certainly more simple and easier to understand! 
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 Use EXISTS checks.  Eg: 
	Code: 
	SELECT RecipeName | 
		
 Another way of doing this is to do: 
	Code: 
	SELECT RecipeName | 
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