How to create a Formula Field that does a SQL "WHERE" statement

Hi all,
I have a field (let's call it "altuser") in a report I'm creating that pulls in a key value from the users table, which is the same table that I'm reporting on. So when I'm reporting on the users in the users table, I'm pulling in the value of altuser for each user.
What I'd like to do is have a formula field that would pull in the name stored in the table instead of the key value for altuser. So what I envision the formula I need would be like:
SELECT fullname FROM userlist
WHERE userkey = altuser;
Which would make it pull in the name of the user instead of the key value for the "altuser" field.
I cannot figure out how to do this in the context of either a Formula Field, or a SQL Expression field. Can anyone show me how this would be done?
Thanks,
Will

So right now, the SQL generated by Crystal Reports is like:
SELECT "userlist"."username", "userlist"."lname", "userlist"."fname", "userlist"."altuser"
FROM   "db"."dbo"."userlist" "userlist"
My report now looks like this:
FULLNAME          LOGIN          ALT. USER
Jones, Sam        SJONES         2002
Smith, Barney     BSMITH         2068
(etc.)
I have a Formula Field that concat's the <lname>", "<fname> for the first col, then uses the username value for that user for the second col, then the altuser value for that user for the third col. The thing I'm trying to do is resolve the ALT. USER data (which is a key value for the userlist file) into the LOGIN value for that user, so the report would end up looking like:
FULLNAME          LOGIN          ALT. USER
Jones, Sam        SJONES        KBROWN
Smith, Barney     BSMITH        FROGERS
(etc.)
where the record with key "2002" has the username value "KBROWN", etc. (they are other user records in the same userlist file.)
Hopefully this makes it clearer...
Thanks,
Will

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