Multiple joins can be described as a query containing joins of the same or different types used more than once, thus giving them the ability to combine multiple tables.
It is possible to use multiple join statements together to join more than one table at the same time. To do that you add a second INNER JOIN statement and a second ON statement to indicate the third table and the second relationship.
Use the UNION ALL clause to join data from columns in two or more tables. In our example, we join data from the employee and customer tables. On the left of the UNION ALL keyword, put the first SELECT statement to get data from the first table (in our example, the table employee ).
The most common way of joining three tables goes something like this: SELECT * FROM Table1 INNER JOIN Table2 ON Condition INNER JOIN Table3 ON Condition; This uses an inner join, but you can specify your desired join type as with any other join. You can also combine join types if required (example below).
You can simply add another join like this:
SELECT dashboard_data.headline, dashboard_data.message, dashboard_messages.image_id, images.filename
FROM dashboard_data
INNER JOIN dashboard_messages
ON dashboard_message_id = dashboard_messages.id
INNER JOIN images
ON dashboard_messages.image_id = images.image_id
However be aware that, because it is an INNER JOIN
, if you have a message without an image, the entire row will be skipped. If this is a possibility, you may want to do a LEFT OUTER JOIN
which will return all your dashboard messages and an image_filename only if one exists (otherwise you'll get a null)
SELECT dashboard_data.headline, dashboard_data.message, dashboard_messages.image_id, images.filename
FROM dashboard_data
INNER JOIN dashboard_messages
ON dashboard_message_id = dashboard_messages.id
LEFT OUTER JOIN images
ON dashboard_messages.image_id = images.image_id
Just add another join:
SELECT dashboard_data.headline,
dashboard_data.message,
dashboard_messages.image_id,
images.filename
FROM dashboard_data
INNER JOIN dashboard_messages
ON dashboard_message_id = dashboard_messages.id
INNER JOIN images
ON dashboard_messages.image_id = images.image_id
I shared my experience of using two LEFT JOINS in a single SQL query.
I have 3 tables:
Table 1) Patient consists columns PatientID, PatientName
Table 2) Appointment consists columns AppointmentID, AppointmentDateTime, PatientID, DoctorID
Table 3) Doctor consists columns DoctorID, DoctorName
Query:
SELECT Patient.patientname, AppointmentDateTime, Doctor.doctorname
FROM Appointment
LEFT JOIN Doctor ON Appointment.doctorid = Doctor.doctorId //have doctorId column common
LEFT JOIN Patient ON Appointment.PatientId = Patient.PatientId //have patientid column common
WHERE Doctor.Doctorname LIKE 'varun%' // setting doctor name by using LIKE
AND Appointment.AppointmentDateTime BETWEEN '1/16/2001' AND '9/9/2014' //comparison b/w dates
ORDER BY AppointmentDateTime ASC; // getting data as ascending order
I wrote the solution to get date format like "mm/dd/yy" (under my name "VARUN TEJ REDDY")
Multi joins in SQL work by progressively creating derived tables one after the other. See this link explaining the process:
https://www.interfacett.com/blogs/multiple-joins-work-just-like-single-joins/
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