i've three tables related. images: id | filename | filesize | ... nodes: image_id | tag_id tags: id | name And i'm using this query to search images containing x tags SELECT images.* FROM images INNER JOIN nodes ON images.id = nodes.image_id WHERE tag_id IN (SELECT tags.id FROM tags WHERE tags.tag IN ("tag1","tag2")) GROUP BY images.id HAVING COUNT(*)= 2 The problem is that i need to retrieve also all images contained by the retrieved image, and i need this in the same query. This the actual query wich search retrieve all tags contained by the image: SELECT tag FROM nodes JOIN tags ON nodes.tag_id = tags.id WHERE image_id = images.id and nodes.private = images.private ORDER BY tag How can i mix this two to have only one query?