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.