show dummy row as group by heading for left outer join - sql

Question

I have 3 tables say company, department and employee. Now I want to find out all the employees who works in company A under department D and want to display data for inner as well as left outer join to see any department that does not have any employee and company which does not have any department.
There is parent key relation between all this tables
**TABLE COMPANY**
COMPANY_NAME COMPANY ID
C1 COMP1
C2 COMP2
C3 COMP3
**TABLE DEPARTMENT**
DEPARTMENT_NAME COMPANY_NAME
D1 C1
D2 C1
D3 C2
**TABLE EMPLOYEE**
EMPLOYEE_ID DEPARTMENT_NAME
E1 D1
E2 D1
E3 D1
E4 D2
E5 D2
Company -- > Department --- > Employee.
I also want to display entity against each column as dummy column.
ENTITY COMPANY_NAME DEPARTMENT_NAME EMPLOYEE_ID
COMPANY C1 - -
DEPARTMENT C1 D1
EMPLOYEE C1 D1 E1
EMPLOYEE C1 D1 E2
EMPLOYEE C1 D1 E3
DEPARTMENT C1 D2 -
EMPLOYEE C1 D2 E4
EMPLOYEE C1 D2 E5
COMPANY C2 - -
DEPARTMENT C2 D3 -
COMPANY C3 - -

Answer 1

You can use the SET operator UNION ALL as follows:
SELECT 'COMPANY' AS ENTITY,
COMPANY_NAME,
'-' AS DEPARTMENT_NAME,
'-' AS EMPLOYEE_ID
FROM COMPANY C
UNION ALL
SELECT 'DEPARTMENT' AS ENTITY,
C.COMPANY_NAME,
D.DEPARTMENT_NAME,
'-' AS EMPLOYEE_ID
FROM DEPARTMENT D
JOIN COMPANY C ON C.COMPANY_ID = D.COMPANY_ID
UNION ALL
SELECT 'EMPLOYEE' AS ENTITY,
C.COMPANY_NAME,
D.DEPARTMENT_NAME,
E.EMPLOYEE_ID
FROM DEPARTMENT D
JOIN COMPANY C ON C.COMPANY_ID = D.COMPANY_ID
JOIN EMPLOYEE E ON E.DEPARTMENT_NAME = D.DEPARTMENT_NAME
ORDER BY COMPANY_NAME,
CASE WHEN DEPARTMENT_NAME = '-' THEN 1 ELSE 2 END,
DEPARTMENT_NAME,
CASE WHEN EMPLOYEE_ID = '-' THEN 1 ELSE 2 END,
EMPLOYEE_ID

Answer 2

Please try this:
select
case entity_disp
when 1 then 'COMPANY'
when 2 then 'DEPARTMENT'
when 3 then 'EMPLOYEE'
end as entity,
company_name,
department_name,
employee_id
from
(select
c.company_name,
d.department_name,
e.employee_id,
1 + decode(d.department_name, null, 0, 1) + decode(e.employee_id, null, 0, 1) as entity_disp
from
company c
left outer join department d on (d.company_name = c.company_name)
left outer join employee e on (e.department_name = d.department_name)
) c
order by c.entity_disp
Take into consideration that according yor tabel model expample it looks like that Company and Department tabels are joined based on company_name. Also Department and Employee tables are joined based on Department_name.
This is how select is implemented. If needed - rework joins with proper relational columns.