Album
Music Database
There are two tables in this database. The album table contains details of two hundred music CD's taken from Amazon.
| asin | title | artist | price | release | label | rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B00000255F | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 13.98 | 1975-08-25 | Sony | 521 |
| B000002UAU | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 13.49 | 1967-06-01 | Capitol | 218 |
| ... | ||||||
The tracks from each
album are listed in a separate table track. The
Two tables are linked using the field track.album
field which relates to the album.asin field.
| album | dsk | posn | song |
|---|---|---|---|
| B00000255F | 1 | 1 | Thunder Road |
| B00000255F | 1 | 2 | Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out |
| B00000255F | 1 | 3 | Night |
| B00000255F | 1 | 4 | Backstreets |
| B00000255F | 1 | 5 | Born to Run |
| ... | |||
| B000002UAU | 1 | 1 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| B000002UAU | 1 | 2 | With a Little Help from My Friends |
| B000002UAU | 1 | 3 | Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds |
| B000002UAU | 1 | 4 | Getting Better |
| B000002UAU | 1 | 5 | She's Leaving Home |
| ... | |||
The JOIN of these two tables includes one row for
each track. It includes fields from both tables. Fields from the
ablum table are repeated.
| ASIN | TITLE | ARTIST | PRICE | RELEASE | LABEL | RANK | ALBUM | DSK | POSN | SONG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B000002UAU | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 13.49 | 01-JUN-67 | Capitol | 218 | B000002UAU | 1 | 1 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| B000002UAU | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 13.49 | 01-JUN-67 | Capitol | 218 | B000002UAU | 1 | 2 | With a Little Help from My Friends |
| B000002UAU | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 13.49 | 01-JUN-67 | Capitol | 218 | B000002UAU | 1 | 3 | Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds |
| B000002UAU | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 13.49 | 01-JUN-67 | Capitol | 218 | B000002UAU | 1 | 4 | Getting Better |
| B000002UAU | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles | 13.49 | 01-JUN-67 | Capitol | 218 | B000002UAU | 1 | 5 | Fixing a Hole |
| B00000255F | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 13.98 | 25-AUG-75 | Sony | 521 | B00000255F | 1 | 1 | Thunder Road |
| B00000255F | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 13.98 | 25-AUG-75 | Sony | 521 | B00000255F | 1 | 2 | Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out |
| B00000255F | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 13.98 | 25-AUG-75 | Sony | 521 | B00000255F | 1 | 3 | Night |
| B00000255F | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 13.98 | 25-AUG-75 | Sony | 521 | B00000255F | 1 | 4 | Backstreets |
| B00000255F | Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 13.98 | 25-AUG-75 | Sony | 521 | B00000255F | 1 | 5 | Born to Run |
| ... | ||||||||||
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