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Different between two query

omid.shokri

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July 7, 2013 at 3:43 am

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Hi Dear,
What is different between two query?
query 1:
SELECT dbo.Person.Code
FROM dbo.Person LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.CustomerSegment ON dbo.Person.CustomerSegment = dbo.CustomerSegment.Code INNER JOIN
dbo.CustomerCreditD ON dbo.CustomerSegment.Code = dbo.CustomerCreditD.CustomerSegment LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.CustomerCreditException ON dbo.CustomerCreditException.Person = dbo.Person.Code
WHERE (dbo.Person.Code = 22122738)
query 2:
SELECT dbo.Person.Code
FROM dbo.CustomerCreditD INNER JOIN
dbo.CustomerSegment ON dbo.CustomerCreditD.CustomerSegment = dbo.CustomerSegment.Code RIGHT OUTER JOIN
dbo.Person LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.CustomerCreditException ON dbo.CustomerCreditException.Person = dbo.Person.Code ON dbo.CustomerSegment.Code = dbo.Person.CustomerSegment
WHERE (dbo.Person.Code = 22122738)
Thanks.

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pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63421 More actions · Answer 1

Is this homework? When you ran it, did you notice any differences?

OUTER joins show all the records from the LEFT table, and matches or nulls in the right side table.

omid.shokri SSC Enthusiast Points: 121 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for reply.

This query is the part of a procedure.

I think no different these two query, but output of query 1 is without any row. In other word, "Inner Join dbo.CustomerCreditD" is cause of the result.

pietlinden SSC Guru Points: 63421 More actions · Answer 3

omid.shokri (7/7/2013)
Thanks for reply.
This query is the part of a procedure.
I think no different these two query, but output of query 1 is without any row. In other word, "Inner Join dbo.CustomerCreditD" is cause of the result.

There's a significant difference between an INNER join and an OUTER join. With an inner join, table sequence doesn't matter that much, but with an OUTER join, it's a big deal.

Maybe you should test on really small data sets - maybe 5-10 records in each table, maximum. Then once you can examine the results and make sense of how you got there, you'll understand it better. One way of doing something like that is to insert a small handful of records into a temporary table, and then query the temporary table...

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259085 More actions · Answer 4

Just avoid RIGHT JOIN altogether. It makes it harder to follow the logic from top to bottom. Also use brackets around your tables so you can easily see what's going on.

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omid.shokri SSC Enthusiast Points: 121 More actions · Answer 5

The table definition is:

CREATE TABLE CustomerSegment

(

Code INT PRIMARY KEY,

rowguidUNIQUEIDENTIFIER DEFAULT(NEWID())

)

CREATE TABLE Person

(

Code INT PRIMARY KEY,

CustomerSegment INT REFERENCES [dbo].[CustomerSegment]([Code]),

rowguidUNIQUEIDENTIFIER DEFAULT(NEWID())

)

CREATE TABLE CustomerCreditD

(

CustomerSegment INT REFERENCES [dbo].[CustomerSegment]([Code]),

rowguidUNIQUEIDENTIFIER PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT(NEWID())

)

CREATE TABLE CustomerCreditException

(

Person INT REFERENCES [dbo].[Person]([Code]),

rowguidUNIQUEIDENTIFIER PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT(NEWID())

)

INSERT INTO [dbo].[CustomerSegment]

([Code])

VALUES(100)

INSERT INTO [dbo].[Person]

([Code],[CustomerSegment])

VALUES(22122738, 100)

INSERT INTO [dbo].[CustomerCreditException]

([Person])

VALUES(22122738)

no result for query 1:

SELECTdbo.Person.Code

FROMdbo.Person

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.CustomerSegment ON dbo.Person.CustomerSegment = dbo.CustomerSegment.Code

INNER JOIN dbo.CustomerCreditD ON dbo.CustomerSegment.Code = dbo.CustomerCreditD.CustomerSegment

LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.CustomerCreditException ON dbo.CustomerCreditException.Person = dbo.Person.Code

WHERE(dbo.Person.Code = 22122738)

but result for query 2:

SELECT dbo.Person.Code

FROM dbo.CustomerCreditD INNER JOIN

dbo.CustomerSegment ON dbo.CustomerCreditD.CustomerSegment = dbo.CustomerSegment.Code RIGHT OUTER JOIN

dbo.Person LEFT OUTER JOIN

dbo.CustomerCreditException ON dbo.CustomerCreditException.Person = dbo.Person.Code ON dbo.CustomerSegment.Code = dbo.Person.CustomerSegment

WHERE (dbo.Person.Code = 22122738)

vwismoovb77315 Grasshopper Points: 23 More actions · Answer 6

Query 1 will return Person Code from Person table only where the Person has its CustomerSegment value found in the CustomerSegment table and in the CustomerCreditD table. This is because of the INNER JOIN involving CustomerCreditD and CustomerSegment.

Query 2 will return Person Code from the Person table as long as it is found in it. This is because the RIGHT OUTER JOIN to the Person table ensures that the row from the Person table matching your selection criteria will be included in the results regardless if there is matching rows from the earlier tables and the left joined subsequent table.