Database Systems:

Design, Implementation, and

Management
Tenth Edition

Chapter 8
Advanced SQL
 SQL Join Operators
• Join operation merges rows from two tables and
returns the rows with one of the following:
– Inner Join
• Have common values in common columns
– Natural join
• Meet a given join condition
– Equality or inequality
– Outer join
• Have common values in common columns or have no
matching value
– Cross join
• Returns same result as the Cartesian product of two sets
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 Cross Join
• Performs relational product of two tables
– Also called Cartesian product
• Syntax:
SELECT column-list FROM table1 CROSS JOIN
table2
• Perform a cross join that yields specified attributes
SELECT INVOICE.INV_NUMBER, CUS_CODE, INV_DATE, P_CODE
FROM INVOICE CROSS JOIN LINE;
OR
FROM INVOICE, LINE;

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 Natural Join
• Not available in MS SQL – use JOIN ON
• Returns all rows with matching values in the matching
columns
– Determines the common attribute(s) by looking for attributes
with identical names and compatible data types
– Select only the rows with common values in the common
attribute(s)
– If there are no common attributes, return the relational product
of the two tables
– Eliminates duplicate columns
• Used when tables share one or more common attributes with
common names
• Syntax:
SELECT column-list FROM table1 NATURAL JOIN table2
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 JOIN USING Clause
• Returns only rows with matching values in the
column indicated in the USING clause
– The column must exist in both tables
• Syntax:
SELECT column-list FROM table1 JOIN table2
USING (common-column)
• JOIN USING operand does not require table
qualifiers
– Oracle returns error if table name is specified

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JOIN USING Clause

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 JOIN ON Clause

• Used when tables have no common attributes

• Returns only rows that meet the join condition
– Typically includes equality comparison expression of
two columns
– Column names need not be the same but they must
be the same data type
• Syntax:
SELECT column-list FROM table1 JOIN table2 ON
join-condition

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 JOIN ON Clause

• The following query will generate a list of all

employees with the managers’ names

SELECT E.EMP_MGR, M.EMP_LNAME, E.EMP_NUM, E.EMP_LNAME

FROM EMP E JOIN EMP M ON E.EMP_MGR = M.EMP_NUM
ORDER BY E.EMP_MGR

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 Outer Joins

• Returns rows matching the join condition

• Also returns rows with unmatched attribute values
for tables to be joined
• Three types
– Left
– Right
– Full
• Left and right designate order in which tables are
processed

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 Outer Joins (cont’d.)
• Left outer join
– Returns rows matching the join condition
– Returns rows in left side table with unmatched values
– Syntax: SELECT column-list FROM table1 LEFT [OUTER] JOIN
table2 ON join-condition

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 Outer Joins (cont’d.)
• Right outer join
– Returns rows matching join condition
– Returns rows in right side table with unmatched values

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 Outer Joins (cont’d.)
• Full outer join
– Returns rows matching join condition
– Returns all rows with unmatched values in either side
table
– Syntax:
SELECT column-list
FROM table1 FULL [OUTER] JOIN table2
ON join-condition

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 Relational Set Operators

• UNION
• INTERSECT
• MINUS
• Work properly if relations are union-compatible
– Names of relation attributes must be the same and
their data types must be identical

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 UNION

• Combines rows from two or more queries

without including duplicate rows
– Example:
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME,
CUS_INITIAL, CUS_AREACODE,
FROM CUSTOMER
UNION
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME,
CUS_INITIAL, CUS_AREACODE,
FROM CUSTOMER_2
• Can be used to unite more than two queries
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 UNION ALL

• Produces a relation that retains duplicate rows

– Example query:
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME,
CUS_INITIAL, CUS_AREACODE, FROM
CUSTOMER
UNION ALL
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME,
CUS_INITIAL, CUS_AREACODE, FROM
CUSTOMER_2;
• Can be used to unite more than two queries

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 INTERSECT

• Combines rows from two queries, returning only

the rows that appear in both sets
• Syntax: query INTERSECT query
– Example query:
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME,
CUS_INITIAL, CUS_AREACODE,
FROM CUSTOMER
INTERSECT
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME,
CUS_INITIAL, CUS_AREACODE,
FROM CUSTOMER_2
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 MINUS
• Combines rows from two queries
– Returns only the rows that appear in the first set but not
in the second
• Syntax: query MINUS query (MS SQL uses EXCEPT)
– Example:
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME, CUS_INITIAL,
CUS_AREACODE, FROM CUSTOMER
MINUS
SELECT CUS_LNAME, CUS_FNAME, CUS_INITIAL,
CUS_AREACODE, FROM CUSTOMER_2

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 Syntax Alternatives

• IN and NOT IN subqueries can be used in place of

INTERSECT or MINUS
Example: INTERSECT
SELECT CUS_CODE FROM CUSTOMER
WHERE CUS_AREACODE = ‘615’ AND
CUS_CODE IN
(SELECT DISTINCT CUS_CODE FROM INVOICE);

• MINUS would use NOT IN

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 Subqueries and Correlated Queries
• Often necessary to process data based on
other processed data
• Subquery is a query inside a query, normally
inside parentheses
• First query is the outer query
– Inside query is the inner query
• Inner query is executed first
• Output of inner query is used as input for outer
query
• Sometimes referred to as a nested query

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Subqueries and Correlated Queries

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 WHERE Subqueries
• Most common type uses inner SELECT subquery on right side of
WHERE comparison
– Requires a subquery that returns only one single value
• Value generated by subquery must be of comparable data type
• Can be used in combination with joins

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 IN Subqueries
• Used when comparing a single attribute to a list
of values

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 HAVING Subqueries
• HAVING clause restricts the output of a
GROUP BY query
– Applies conditional criterion to the grouped rows

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 Multirow Subquery Operators: ANY and ALL
• Allows comparison of single value with a list of values using inequality
comparison
– “Greater than ALL” equivalent to “greater than the highest in list”
– “Less than ALL” equivalent to “less than lowest”
– Using equal to ANY operator equivalent to IN operator

– In the query below we compare a single value (P_QOH*P_PRICE) with a list of

values returned by the first subquery
– For a row to appear in the resultset, it has to meet the criterion
P_QOH*P_PRICE>ALL of the individual values returned by the first subquery

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SELECT V_CODE FROM VENDOR WHERE V_STATE='FL';
V_CODE
21226
25443
25595

SELECT P_QOH*P_PRICE FROM PRODUCT

WHERE V_CODE IN (SELECT V_CODE FROM VENDOR WHERE V_STATE='FL’);
QOH*PRICE
879.92
467.4
2159.1

SELECT P_CODE, P_QOH*P_PRICE, V_STATE

FROM PRODUCT JOIN VENDOR ON PRODUCT.V_CODE=VENDOR.V_CODE
WHERE P_QOH*P_PRICE > ALL
(SELECT P_QOH*P_PRICE FROM PRODUCT
WHERE V_CODE IN (SELECT V_CODE FROM VENDOR WHERE V_STATE='FL’));
P_CODE QOH*PRICE V_STATE
89-WRE-Q 2826.89 TN
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 FROM Subqueries
• Specifies the tables from which the data will be
drawn
• Can use SELECT subquery in the FROM clause
– View name can be used anywhere a table is expected

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 Attribute List Subqueries

• SELECT statement uses attribute list to indicate

columns to project resulting set
– Columns can be attributes of base tables
– Result of aggregate function
• Attribute list can also include subquery expression:
inline subquery
– Must return one single value

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 Attribute List Subqueries
• Cannot use an alias in the attribute list
– You can not write P_PRICE-AVGPRICE in line 2

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 Correlated Subqueries
• Subquery that executes once for each row in the
outer query
• Correlated because inner query is related to the
outer query
– Inner query references column of outer subquery
– Works like a nested loop
for x=1 to 2
for y=1 to 3
print “x=“ x “y=“ y
as x holds steady with 1, y loops from 1 to 3
• Can also be used with the EXISTS special operator

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Correlated Subqueries

LS.P_CODE is fixed, the inner query finds

the average LINE_UNITS for that code and
the outer query lists the row information if
the LINE_UNITS for an individual
INV_NUMBER is greater than the average
LINE_UNITS for all INV_NUMBERs with that
P_CODE

The second query validates the

information listed in the first by showing
the LINE_UNITS for the INV_NUMBER as
before and the AVG LINE_UNITS for that
P_CODE

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EXISTS Correlated Subquery

The first query

shows the names
of all customers
who have at least
one order in the
INVOICE table

The second query

shows the vendor
info for those
products who
QOH is less than
twice the
minimum quantity

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 SQL Functions

• Generating information from data often requires

many data manipulations
• SQL functions are similar to functions in
programming languages
• Functions always use numerical, date, or string
value
• Value may be part of a command or attribute in
a table
• Function may appear anywhere in an SQL
statement
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 Date and Time Functions

• All SQL-standard DBMSs support date and time

functions
• Date functions take one parameter and return a
value
• Date/time data types are implemented differently by
different DBMS vendors
• ANSI SQL standard defines date data types, but not
how data types are stored

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 Numeric Functions

• Grouped in different ways

– Algebraic, trigonometric, logarithmic, etc.
• Do not confuse with aggregate functions
– Aggregate functions operate over sets
– Numeric functions operate over single row
• Numeric functions take one numeric parameter and
return one value

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 String Functions

• String manipulations are the most used functions in

programming
• String manipulation function examples:
– Concatenation
– Printing in uppercase
– Finding length of an attribute

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 Conversion Functions
• Take a value of given data type and convert it to
the equivalent value in another data type
• Oracle conversion functions:
– TO_CHAR: takes a date value, converts to
character string
– TO_DATE: takes character string representing a
date, converts it to actual date in Oracle format

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 SQL Conversion Functions
• SQL Server uses CAST and CONVERT functions
– Numeric to Character
• CAST(numeric as varchar(length))
• CONVERT(varchar(length), numeric)
– Date to Character
• CAST(date as varchar(length))
• CONVERT(varchar(length), date)
– String to Number
• CAST(‘-123.99’ AS NUMERIC(8,2))
– String to Date
• CONVERT(DATETIME,'01/JAN/1970')
• CAST('01-JAN-1970' AS DATETIME)
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 Virtual Tables: Creating a View

• View
– Virtual table based on a SELECT query
• Base tables
• Tables on which the view is based
• CREATE VIEW viewname AS SELECT query

create view v_empname as

select emp_lname, emp_fname, emp_initial
from emp;

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 Triggers

• Procedural SQL code automatically invoked by

RDBMS on data manipulation event
• Trigger definition:
– Triggering timing: BEFORE or AFTER
– Triggering event: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
– Triggering level:
• Statement-level trigger
• Row-level trigger
– Triggering action
• DROP TRIGGER trigger_name
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 Triggers
• On an insert or update of the emp table, trigger
checks if last name is Null. If it is, replaces value
with N/A

create trigger t_empname

on emp
after insert,update
as
update emp
set emp_lname=
ISNULL(emp.emp_lname,'N/A')

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 Triggers
• On an insert or update of the emp table, if the
areacode is not 615 or 901, delete the record

create trigger t_areacode

on emp
for insert,update
as
if (exists(select * from inserted where
EMP_AREACODE <> '615'))
delete from EMP where EMP_AREACODE not in
('615','901')

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 Stored Procedures

• Named collection of procedural and SQL

statements that can encapsulate and
represent business transactions
– A stored procedure can represent a product
sale, credit update or addition of a new
customer
– All SQL statement within a single stored
procedure and executed as a single
transaction

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 Stored Procedures
• Advantages
– Substantially reduce network traffic and increase
performance
• No transmission of individual SQL statements over
network as procedure is stored at the server and
executed locally on the RDBMS
– Reduce code duplication by means of code
isolation and code sharing
• Minimize chance of errors and cost of application
development and maintenance

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 Stored Procedures
Parameter is optional but allows reuse similar to a
function call
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_GetInventory
@location varchar(10)
AS
SELECT Product, Quantity
FROM Inventory
WHERE Warehouse = @location

To execute
EXECUTE sp_GetInventory 'FL'

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