SQL - Check if record exists in multiple tables

Question

I've been searching in stack for similiar questions but I couldn't find one that helps me with this issue, or I couldn't understand it. I've got 3 tables.

Users
+---------+------+--------------+
| id_user | name | age          |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user1   | John | 51           |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user2   | Jane | 65           |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user3   | Katie| 51           |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user4   | Marck| 65           |
+---------+------+--------------+


City1
+---------+------+--------------+
| id_user | time | street       |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user1   | 8    | 111111111111 |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user2   | 5    | 222222222222 |
+---------+------+--------------+

City2
+---------+------+--------------+
| user_id | time | street       |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user1   | 6    | 111111111111 |
+---------+------+--------------+
| user4   | 7    | 222222222222 |
+---------+------+--------------+

I'm trying to do a query in order to know if a specific id_user exists in City1 and City2 tables. I don't really know how to strucuture it. For example, done id_user = user1, I would like to recieve something like city1 = true, city2=true. (in both tables, user1 exists); or done id_user=2, recieve city1=true, city2=false.

Any ideas of how to do that?

Answer 1

If user ids are not repeated in each table, then you can use left outer join:

select u.*,
       (c1.id_user is not null) as InCity1,
       (c2.id_user is not null) as InCity2
from users u left outer join
     city1 c1
     on u.id_user = c1.id_user left outer join
     city2 c2
     on u.id_user = c2.id_user;

You can add a where clause if you want to see the information for only one user.