table1 id | table table1 sample data: 1 | 'table2' 2 | 'table3' table2 id | text table2 sample data: 1 | 'content from table 2' table3 id | text table3 sample data: 2 | 'content from table 3' What i am trying to do is to select into one step data from table 1 and relating table which is on "table" field on table1. SELECT `t1`.*, `t2`.`text` FROM `t1` LEFT JOIN `t1`.`table` AS `t2` ON t1.id = t2.id doesn't work