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This document discusses using self joins in SQL. A self join allows a table to be joined with itself. This can be used to find all pairs of records in a table that match on certain fields, like finding all bus routes that share stops or bus numbers. Examples are given showing how to write SQL queries to perform self joins on a sample "route" table to identify routes that share stops or bus numbers.

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Using A Self Join - SQLZOO

This document discusses using self joins in SQL. A self join allows a table to be joined with itself. This can be used to find all pairs of records in a table that match on certain fields, like finding all bus routes that share stops or bus numbers. Examples are given showing how to write SQL queries to perform self joins on a sample "route" table to identify routes that share stops or bus numbers.

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Using a self join

Contents
Edinburgh Buses: self join
Examples of self joins on the route table
Self join of route on (num, company)
Self join of route on stop

Edinburgh Buses: self join

A table may be joined with itself. When this happens we need


some mechanism for distinguishing the
instances of the table.
Labels may be introduced in the FROM clause - a dot is used to
separate the label
and attribute name when used elsewhere in
the statement.

Examples of self joins on the route table

Self join of route on (num, company)


We might join the route table on the (num, company) pair.
The result is a list of all pairs of stops which
share a
service.

SELECT * FROM route R1, route R2

WHERE R1.num=R2.num AND R1.company=R2.company

This is a large table with over 11000 entries. An extract is


shown below. There are 121 entries for the LRT
1 service alone.
There are 11 stops on the number 1. It is a circular route -
the first and last stops are
identical.

num company pos stop num_1 company_1 pos_1 stop_1


1 LRT 1 134 1 LRT 7 217
1 LRT 1 134 1 LRT 11 134
1 LRT 1 134 1 LRT 10 79
...
1 LRT 2 97 1 LRT 7 217
1 LRT 2 97 1 LRT 11 134
...
2 LRT 9 31 2 LRT 11 217
2 LRT 9 31 2 LRT 1 168

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Self join of route on stop

We might join the route table with itself on the stop field.
The result is a list of all pairs of services which
share a
stop.

SELECT * FROM route R1, route R2

WHERE R1.stop=R2.stop;

In the extract below some of the entries for stop 53,


'Craiglockhart' are shown.

num company pos stop num_1 company_1 pos_1 stop_1


47 LRT 4 53 47 LRT 4 53
47 LRT 4 53 27 LRT 6 53
47 LRT 4 53 10 LRT 8 53
47 LRT 4 53 45 LRT 7 53
47 LRT 4 53 4 LRT 6 53
10 LRT 8 53 47 LRT 4 53
10 LRT 8 53 27 LRT 6 53
10 LRT 8 53 10 LRT 8 53
...

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