SQL: RIGHT JOIN

RIGHT JOIN works like the INNER JOIN, it just returns all the records that are on the right side of the = sign on the RIGHT JOIN clause. For example let's say you want to get a record of all customers who orders a certain product.

SQL: Views

Views are virtual tables that you can create that others can use without knowing the complexity of the query, but can be used like a table. Also they can provided an added security by giving developers access to a view instead of the underlying table. Views does not contain data in itself the data stays at the tables that the views are created from. Complex views can degrade performance since they contain no data the query must be processed every time. Let's say a junior developer just came on board and he doesn't really know SQL that well. You can create a view of the more complex views to work with until he gets better with his SQL.

CREATE VIEW EmployeeTerritoriesDescriptions AS
SELECT e.FirstName + ' ' + e.LastName AS Name, t.TerritoryDescription,t.TerritoryID
FROM Employees e
INNER JOIN EmployeeTerritories et ON et.EmployeeID = e.EmployeeID
INNER JOIN Territories t ON t.TerritoryID = et.TerritoryID

The view above queries the employees territories using joins, by creating a view the person using the view does not have to know the underlying table structures that is in the database they can just use the view.

SQL: WHERE Clause

In SQL the WHERE clause is the most common join you will see, it relates one or more tables together. For example you want to get the employeeis territory information in the Northwind database but you there are all in different tables.

SQL: Subqueries

The easiest and simplest way to explain what a subquery is to say that it's a query within a query. For example if you want to get the employee that belongs to specific territory in the Northwind database without a join, you would have to use a subquery. Like the following subquery.

SELECT EmployeeID, (FirstName + ' ' + LastName) AS Name
FROM Employees
WHERE EmployeeID IN (SELECT EmployeeID 
       FROM EmployeeTerritories 
       WHERE TerritoryID=01581) 

Things You Should Know About Subqueries:

• They are not the most efficient performance wise
• You can only retrieve a single column in the subquery, retrieving multiple columns will throw an error

SQL: GROUP BY And HAVING

SQL GROUPING allows you to segregate data into groups so that you can work on it separately from the rest of the table records. Let's say you want to get the number of products in a category in the Northwind database Products table. You would write the following query:

 SELECT COUNT(*) NumberOfProductsByCategory
FROM Products
GROUP BY CategoryID

The query above gives you the following results: