Which of the following join returns the records that match the values for the join columns from both the tables on the join?

SQL Join statement is used to combine data or rows from two or more tables based on a common field between them. Different types of Joins are as follows: 

Student

 

StudentCourse 

The simplest Join is INNER JOIN. 

A. INNER JOIN

The INNER JOIN keyword selects all rows from both the tables as long as the condition is satisfied. This keyword will create the result-set by combining all rows from both the tables where the condition satisfies i.e value of the common field will be the same. 

Syntax: 

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,.... FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column; table1: First table. table2: Second table matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

Note: We can also write JOIN instead of INNER JOIN. JOIN is same as INNER JOIN. 

Example Queries(INNER JOIN)

This query will show the names and age of students enrolled in different courses.  

SELECT StudentCourse.COURSE_ID, Student.NAME, Student.AGE FROM Student INNER JOIN StudentCourse ON Student.ROLL_NO = StudentCourse.ROLL_NO;

Output:  

B. LEFT JOIN

This join returns all the rows of the table on the left side of the join and matches rows for the table on the right side of the join. For the rows for which there is no matching row on the right side, the result-set will contain null. LEFT JOIN is also known as LEFT OUTER JOIN.

Syntax: 

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,.... FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table2 ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column; table1: First table. table2: Second table matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

Note: We can also use LEFT OUTER JOIN instead of LEFT JOIN, both are the same.

Example Queries(LEFT JOIN): 

SELECT Student.NAME,StudentCourse.COURSE_ID FROM Student LEFT JOIN StudentCourse ON StudentCourse.ROLL_NO = Student.ROLL_NO;

Output: 

C. RIGHT JOIN

RIGHT JOIN is similar to LEFT JOIN. This join returns all the rows of the table on the right side of the join and matching rows for the table on the left side of the join. For the rows for which there is no matching row on the left side, the result-set will contain null. RIGHT JOIN is also known as RIGHT OUTER JOIN. 

Syntax: 

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,.... FROM table1 RIGHT JOIN table2 ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column; table1: First table. table2: Second table matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

Note: We can also use RIGHT OUTER JOIN instead of RIGHT JOIN, both are the same. 

Example Queries(RIGHT JOIN):

SELECT Student.NAME,StudentCourse.COURSE_ID FROM Student RIGHT JOIN StudentCourse ON StudentCourse.ROLL_NO = Student.ROLL_NO;

Output: 

D. FULL JOIN

FULL JOIN creates the result-set by combining results of both LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN. The result-set will contain all the rows from both tables. For the rows for which there is no matching, the result-set will contain NULL values.

Syntax:  

SELECT table1.column1,table1.column2,table2.column1,.... FROM table1 FULL JOIN table2 ON table1.matching_column = table2.matching_column; table1: First table. table2: Second table matching_column: Column common to both the tables.

Example Queries(FULL JOIN): 

SELECT Student.NAME,StudentCourse.COURSE_ID FROM Student FULL JOIN StudentCourse ON StudentCourse.ROLL_NO = Student.ROLL_NO;

Output:  

NAME	COURSE_ID
HARSH	1
PRATIK	2
RIYANKA	2
DEEP	3
SAPTARHI	1
DHANRAJ	NULL
ROHIT	NULL
NIRAJ	NULL
NULL	4
NULL	5
NULL	4

Left JOIN (Video) 
Right JOIN (Video) 
Full JOIN (Video) 
SQL | JOIN (Cartesian Join, Self Join) 

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