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SQL Ii:: Lab: Application of Selects and Joins

This document provides an overview of SQL concepts including selects, joins, aliases, views, inline views, and ORDER BY. It includes examples of queries using these concepts and tests students to write queries applying the concepts. It assigns homework of completing exercises on SQLZoo.net to further practice these SQL skills before the next class.

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SQL Ii:: Lab: Application of Selects and Joins

This document provides an overview of SQL concepts including selects, joins, aliases, views, inline views, and ORDER BY. It includes examples of queries using these concepts and tests students to write queries applying the concepts. It assigns homework of completing exercises on SQLZoo.net to further practice these SQL skills before the next class.

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SQL II:

Lab: Application of Selects and


Joins

As last time:
Download presentation from CULearn to
ensure faster access to queries and ability to
read (especially if youre in the back).

Useful starting point


SELECT count(*)
FROM customers

SELECT count(*)
FROM orders
-- Paste this whole screen into SQL Server
and execute (including this line)

From Last Class:


Who bought Chai?
Develop your queries one step at a time.
That way, you will know where the errors
may be found

Again: Who bought Chai?


SELECT *
FROM orders
SELECT *
FROM orders
inner join [order details]
ON orders.orderid = [order details].orderid

SELECT *
FROM orders
inner join [order details]
ON orders.orderid = [order details].orderid
inner join products
ON [order details].productid = products.productid
SELECT *
FROM orders
inner join [order details]
ON orders.orderid = [order details].orderid
inner join products
ON [order details].productid = products.productid
WHERE products.productname = 'chai
NOW: Change this query so that you see only the Company Names of those who bought Chai!
NOW: Change this query so that you can see the Company Names, date, quantities, unitprice, and discount of those who
bought Chai! ORDER by company name
NOW: Change this query so that you know the total price paid for the Chai on each order.

New Knowledge: Aliases


Sometimes it gets boring to write in names
over and over (and over) again.
SQL has a solution to that called aliases
Two uses:
Replace table name with a shorter name
Give aggregate functions column names

Aliases - example
SELECT

o.orderid
,o.customerid
,c.companyname
,o.shipname AS ShippedToName
FROM
orders o
INNER JOIN
customers c
ON
o.customerid = c.customerid

New Knowledge: Views


You can also create virtual tables that dont actually contain any data,
but which you can query as if they were real tables
Example:
CREATE VIEW viewname AS
SELECT o.orderid, o.customerid, c.companyname, o.shipname
FROM orders o
FULL OUTER JOIN customers c
ON o.customerid = c.customerid

Now, lets examine an existing view. Go to the views tab under the Northwind
database. Right-click on the view called dbo.Category Sales for 1997. Select top
1000 rows. Then do the same and select design.

New Knowledge: Inline Views


Rather than joining with a table, you can create a query
to replace it.
-- Example 1 (no inline view):
SELECT *
FROM
customers
-- Example 2 (inline view in the FROM table)
SELECT *
FROM
(SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE country LIKE 'Germany') AS CustomersTable
-- Example 3 (inline view in JOIN)
SELECT *
FROM orders
INNER JOIN
(SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE country LIKE 'Germany') AS CustomersTable
ON orders.customerid = customerstable.customerid

New Knowledge: ORDER BY


The result set can be ordered by one or
several columns.
The ORDER BY statement always comes:
After the WHERE (if this exists)
After the GROUP BY (if this exists)

SELECT

Customers.CompanyName
,Customers.city
FROM
Customers
ORDER BY Customers.city

Test 1
In Northwind, create a query that outputs
the following three columns:
ProductId
ProductName
Average ordersize

You should get 77 rows with the average


quantity for each order of that item.

Test 2
Find out how many items Northwind has
sold of each product along with the total
sum for each

Test 2 Answer
SELECT productname,
SUM(quantity) AS NumberOfSales,
SUM((od.unitprice * od.quantity)*
(1 - od.discount)) AS TotalSum
FROM products
INNER JOIN [order details] od
ON od.productid = products.productid
GROUP BY productname

Test 3
Now take the query from Test 2 and
replace the product name with a category
name.
It can be done with two relative simple
changes and an additional join

Test 3 Answer
SELECT
categoryname,
SUM((od.unitprice * od.quantity)* (1 - od.discount)) AS TotalSum,
COUNT(*) AS NumberOfSales
FROM products
INNER JOIN [order details] od
ON od.productid = products.productid
INNER JOIN categories
ON categories.categoryid = products.categoryid
GROUP BY categoryname

Homework for next class

At SQLZoo.net, do the following exercises:

4 (Select within Select) (individual homework)

5 (Sum and Count) (individual homework)

14
15

6 (Joins) (individual homework)

1-5
Note that they dont specify inner, left, right, outer join (which defaults to inner). They also use slightly
different formatting, but youll be fine with what youve learned in class.

7 (Joins) (individual homework)


1-8

7 (Joins) (Teamwork, turn in one copy for whole team)


9-11

Print the pages with all your result sets showing

Preferred approach: do screenshots into MS Word and crop off everything but the query and the result.

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