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Joins 1) Inner Joins - : I. Equi-Join

1. There are four types of inner joins: equi-join, non-equijoin, cross join, and natural join. Inner joins return rows where there is a match between the tables being joined. 2. Outer joins return all rows from one table, and matched rows from the other table. If there is no match, the outer join will return NULL values. There are three types of outer joins: left outer join, right outer join, and full outer join. 3. A left outer join returns all rows from the left table, and matched rows from the right table. A right outer join does the opposite - it returns all rows from the right table, and matched rows from the

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Joins 1) Inner Joins - : I. Equi-Join

1. There are four types of inner joins: equi-join, non-equijoin, cross join, and natural join. Inner joins return rows where there is a match between the tables being joined. 2. Outer joins return all rows from one table, and matched rows from the other table. If there is no match, the outer join will return NULL values. There are three types of outer joins: left outer join, right outer join, and full outer join. 3. A left outer join returns all rows from the left table, and matched rows from the right table. A right outer join does the opposite - it returns all rows from the right table, and matched rows from the

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1.

Joins
1) Inner joins –
An INNER JOIN combines the records from two tables using comparison operators in a condition.
An INNER JOIN is a CROSS JOIN with some result rows removed by a condition in the query.
There are four type of INNER JOINs as below

I. EQUI-JOIN:
We can use our inner join with the = operator to match up the foreign key in boys to the primary
key in toys.
Example -

--Inner join
SELECT
BOYS.BOY,
TOYS.TOY
FROM
BOYS
INNER JOIN TOYS ON BOYS.TOY_ID = TOYS.TOY_ID;

II. NON-EQUIJOIN:
The non-equijoin returns any rows that are not equal. We can see exactly which toys each boy
doesn’t have (which could be useful around their birthdays).

SELECT
BOYS.BOY,
TOYS.TOY
FROM
BOYS
INNER JOIN TOYS ON BOYS.TOY_ID <> TOYS.TOY_ID
ORDER BY BOYS.BOY;

This query will return non-matching 16 records.

III. CROSS JOIN (Cartesian Join) / COMMA JOIN:


The CROSS JOIN returns every row from one table crossed with every row from the second.
It is type of inner join without any conditions. Here, ON keyword is not allowed, but we can use
where condition to restrict the record.

Ex -
IF DOSRUBRIQUE have 8 records and DOSACTADRESSE have 8 records , it will give 8*8=64
records for below query –
--Cross join
SELECT
B.BOY,
T.TOY
FROM
BOYS AS B
CROSS JOIN TOYS AS T;

-- We can use COMMA instead of CROSS JOIN as below


SELECT
B.BOY,
T.TOY
FROM
BOYS AS B , TOYS AS T;
We can use CROSS JOIN with where condition if there is foreign key in TOYS table which is
primary key in BOYS table. But, We cannot use ON keyword to specify the condition for CROSS
join

--CROSS join
SELECT
BOYS.BOY,
TOYS.TOY
FROM
BOYS CROSS JOIN TOYS
WHERE BOYS.TOYID = TOYS.TOYID;

IV. NATURAL JOIN:


There’s only one kind of inner join left, and it’s called a natural join. NATURAL JOIN inner joins
identify matching column names. Natural joins only work if the column you’re joining by has
the same name in both tables. We will get similar result set to EQUI JOIN. Here, ON keyword is
not allowed, but we can use where condition to restrict the record with other conditions.

--Natural Join
SELECT
BOYS.BOY,
TOYS.TOY
FROM
BOYS
NATURAL JOIN TOYS;
2) OUTER JOIN:
By comparison with inner join, outer joins have more to do with the relationship between two tables
than the joins you’ve seen so far. It’s about left and right.
Difference: The difference is that an outer join gives you a row whether there’s a match with the
other table or not. And a NULL value tells you no match exists.

V. LEFT OUTER JOIN:

A LEFT OUTER JOIN takes all the rows in the left table and matches them to rows in the RIGHT
table. It’s useful when the left table and the right table have a one-to-many relationship. The
keyword ON is mandatory.

In a LEFT OUTER JOIN, the table that comes after FROM and BEFORE the join is the LEFT table,
and the table that comes AFTER the join is the RIGHT table.

By using INNER JOIN

SELECT
G.GIRL,
T.TOY
FROM
GIRLS G
INNER JOIN TOYS T ON G.TOY_ID = T.TOY_ID;
By using LEFT OUTER JOIN:

SELECT
G.GIRL,
T.TOY
FROM
GIRLS G
LEFT OUTER JOIN TOYS T ON G.TOY_ID = T.TOY_ID;

Still it gives the same result. It is because there are all matches in the RIGHT table with respect
to left table. If RIGHT table has no value that corresponds to LEFT table then a NULL value will
be displayed in the result for RIGHT table columns.

Now, let’s reverse the table order as below –

SELECT
G.GIRL,
T.TOY
FROM
TOYS T
LEFT OUTER JOIN GIRLS G ON G.TOY_ID = T.TOY_ID;
Outer joins and multiple matches:

Result:
VI. The right outer join:
The right outer join is exactly the same thing as the left outer join, except it compares the
right table to the left one. The two queries below give you precisely the same results: The
right outer join evaluates the right table against the left table.

SELECT
G.GIRL,
T.TOY
FROM
TOYS T
RIGHT OUTER JOIN GIRLS G ON G.TOY_ID = T.TOY_ID;

Equivalent to ->

SELECT
G.GIRL,
T.TOY
FROM
GIRLS G
LEFT OUTER JOIN TOYS T ON G.TOY_ID = T.TOY_ID;

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