SELECT .. JOIN

From SQLZoo
(Redirected from JOIN)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The SELECT .. JOIN statement

Sometimes you need to access two or more tables to get the data required.

games
yrcity
1896Athens
1948London
2004Athens
2008Beijing
2012London
city
namecountry
SydneyAustralia
AthensGreece
BeijingChina
LondonUK
schema:scott
DROP TABLE games CASCADE;
DROP TABLE city CASCADE
CREATE TABLE games(
  yr INTEGER,
  city VARCHAR(20));
INSERT INTO games VALUES (1896,'Athens');
INSERT INTO games VALUES (1948,'London');
INSERT INTO games VALUES (2004,'Athens');
INSERT INTO games VALUES (2008,'Beijing');
INSERT INTO games VALUES (2012,'London');
CREATE TABLE city (
   name VARCHAR(20),
   country VARCHAR(20));
INSERT INTO city VALUES ('Sydney','Australia');
INSERT INTO city VALUES ('Athens','Greece');
INSERT INTO city VALUES ('Beijing','China');
INSERT INTO city VALUES ('London','UK');

You can use a JOIN to get results from two or more related tables. In this example each row of the table games is related to a row of the table city. If you want to find the country where the games took place you must JOIN the games table to the city table on the common field that is games.city and city.name

SELECT games.yr, city.country
  FROM scott.games JOIN scott.city
       ON (games.city = city.name)
SELECT games.yr, city.country
  FROM games JOIN city
       ON (games.city = city.name)


See also

DataWars, Data Science Practice Projects - LogoDataWars: Practice Data Science/Analysis with +100 Real Life Projects