Weekly Reading for week of 05/19/2018

Enjoy the weekend with these great open-source SQL blog posts from around the web… At times, a few may be a bit dated, but worth the read, while others are relatively current… Share them along…

What’s missing? Find out using OUTER JOIN’s in MySQL with examples.

What’s missing? What matches in one table but not another? MySQL (and SQL in general) have a way to find out. More than likely, when working with a normalized database, you are faced with these types of questions. Querying multiple tables with JOIN‘s on matched values, only goes so far to answering this type of question. We will see how to leverage an OUTER JOIN, for these requests.
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Weekly Reading – For week of 05/12/2018

Enjoy the weekend with these great open-source SQL blog posts from around the web… At times, a few may be a bit dated, but worth the read, while others are relatively current… Share them along…

 

INNER JOIN in MySQL with examples.

To normalize data, we often store it in several tables within a given database. While querying those tables individually can provide answers to numerous questions around that data, more times than not, it leaves us ‘coming up short’ for the complete answer we need.
That poses the question of, how do you extract all this data from several tables that depend on one another to provide data-driven answers?
One tried and true method is to use a JOIN operation.

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Weekly Reading – For Week of 05/05/2018

Enjoy the weekend with these great open-source SQL blog posts from around the web… At times, a few may be a bit dated, but worth the read, while others are relatively current… Share them along…