Sql data from row to column with reference to another column - sql

Parent table
+====+===========+
| id | firstname |
+====+===========+
| 1 | abc |
+----+-----------+
| 2 | bcd |
+----+-----------+
| 3 | cde |
+----+-----------+
StudentRelationship table
+==========+==========+===========+
| relation | parentid | studentid |
+==========+==========+===========+
| father | 1 | s0001 |
+----------+----------+-----------+
| mother | 2 | s0001 |
+----------+----------+-----------+
| father | 3 | s0002 |
+----------+----------+-----------+
STUDENT table
+=======+===========+==========+=========+======+
| id | firstname | lastname | address | sex |
+=======+===========+==========+=========+======+
| s0001 | shdj | khb | jxx | male |
+-------+-----------+----------+---------+------+
It would be great if you could help me create a query which will return studentid ,name,father name,mother name,sex,address.

Based on what you've posted, then updated in your comments, I think this should work for you. I am sure someone with more advanced SQL skills can post a more elegant way to do this. But this is what I came up with:
SELECT DISTINCT cte.studentid
,studentFirstName
,studentLastName
,father.fatherFirstName
,mother.motherFirstName
,sex
,address
FROM cte
LEFT JOIN father ON cte.studentid = father.studentid
LEFT JOIN mother ON cte.studentid = mother.studentid
The following is an example where a student (Jeff Jones) has two fathers (let's say one of them is the step-father):
A few recommendations here:
Take a course on SQL syntax fundamentals (any type MySQL, T-SQL, etc..)
Read about FROM and JOIN
When posting your question here, the table examples should have better test data. "asdfkj", "shdsf", "Asdjkfdjkf" are horribly hard to
use to test code against because there is no context of what you are
looking at. I realize you are just posting an example, and the context
of the rows is partly insignificant, but it just makes for easier
question answering, and doesn't scare off people who would want to
answer your question.
Here is an DEMO you can play with, that has reasonable data in the fields you've mentioned.

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SQL - specific requirement to compare tables

I'm trying to merge 2 queries into 1 (cuts the number of daily queries in half): I have 2 tables, I want to do a query against 1 table, then the same query against the other table that has the same list just less entries.
Basically its a list of (let's call it for obfuscation) people and hobby. One table is ALL people & hobby, the other shorter list is people & hobby that I've met. Table 2 would all be found in table 1. Table 1 includes entries (people I have yet to meet) not found in table 2
The tables are synced up from elsewhere, what I'm looking to do is print a list of ALL people in the first column then print the hobby ONLY of people that are on both lists. That way I can see the lists merged, and track the rate at which the gap between both lists is closing. I have tried a number of SQL combinations but they either filter out the first table and match only items that are true for both (i.e. just giving me table 2) or just adding table 2 to table 1.
Example of what I'm trying to do below:
+---------+----------+--+----------+---------+--+---------+----------+
| table1 | | | table2 | | | query | |
+---------+----------+--+----------+---------+--+---------+----------+
| name | hobby | | activity | person | | name | hobby |
| bob | fishing | | fishing | bob | | bob | fishing |
| bill | vidgames | | hiking | sarah | | bill | |
| sarah | hiking | | planking | sabrina | | sarah | hiking |
| mike | cooking | | | | | mike | |
| sabrina | planking | | | | | sabrina | planking |
+---------+----------+--+----------+---------+--+---------+----------+
Normally I'd just take the few days to learn SQL a bit better however I'm stretched pretty thin at work as it is!
I should mention the table 2 is flipped and the headings are all unique (don't think this matters)!
I think you just want a left join:
select t1.name, t2.activity as hobby
from table1 t1 left join
table2 t2
on t1.name = t2.person;

Simple SQL Query to bring back null if no match found

EDIT
I've edited this question to make it a little more concise, if you see my edit history you will see my effort and 'what I've tried' but it was adding a lot of unnecessary noise and causing confusion so here is a summary of input and output:
People:
ID | FullName
--------------------
1 | Jimmy
2 | John
3 | Becky
PeopleJobRequirements:
ID | PersonId | Title
--------------------
1 | 1 | Some Requirement
2 | 1 | Another Requirement
3 | 2 | Some Requirement
4 | 3 | Another Requirement
Output:
FullName | RequirementTitle
---------------------------
Jimmy | Some Requirement
Jimmy | Another Requirement
John | Some Requirement
John | null
Becky | null
Becky | Another Requirement
Each person has 2 records, because that's how many distinct requirements there are in the table (distinct based on 'Title').
Assume there is no third table - the 'PeopleJobRequirements' is unique to each person (one person to many requirements), but there will be duplicate Titles in there (some people have the same job requirements).
Sincere apologies for any confusion caused by the recent updates.
CROSS JOIN to get equal record for each person and LEFT JOIN for matching records.
Following query should work in your scenario
select p.Id, p.FullName,r.Title
FROM People p
cross join (select distinct title from PeopleJobRequirements ) pj
left join PeopleJobRequirements r on p.id=r.personid and pj.Title=r.Title
order by fullname
Online Demo
Output
+----+----------+---------------------+
| Id | FullName | Title |
+----+----------+---------------------+
| 3 | Becky | Another Requirement |
+----+----------+---------------------+
| 3 | Becky | NULL |
+----+----------+---------------------+
| 1 | Jimmy | Some Requirement |
+----+----------+---------------------+
| 1 | Jimmy | Another Requirement |
+----+----------+---------------------+
| 2 | John | NULL |
+----+----------+---------------------+
| 2 | John | Some Requirement |
+----+----------+---------------------+
use left join, no need any subquery
select p.*,jr.*,jrr.*
from People p left join
PeopleJobRequirements jr on p.Id=jrPersonId
left join JobRoleRequirements jrr p.id=jrr.PersonId
according the explanation, People and PeopleJobRequirements tables have many to many relationship (n to n).
so first of all you'll need another table to relate these to table.
first do this and then a full join will make it right.

SQL relationships, multiple methods, same result? Select, From, Where OR Select, From, Join, Where

I've got 2 tables, a questions table and an answers table with the following example data:
+-----------------------------------+
| Questions |
+----+------------------------------+
| id | title |
+----+------------------------------+
| 1 | What is your favourite game? |
| 2 | What is your favourite food? |
+----+------------------------------+
+-------------------------------------------------+
| Answers |
+----+------------------------------+-------------+
| id | text | question_id |
+----+------------------------------+-------------+
| 1 | The Last Of Us | 1 |
| 2 | PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds | 1 |
| 3 | Uncharted | 1 |
| 4 | KFC | 2 |
| 5 | Pizza | 2 |
+----+------------------------------+-------------+
Creating a one to many relationship as in one question can have many answers, I can do any of the following:
SELECT
id, text
FROM
answers
WHERE
question_id = 1
Or:
SELECT
answers.id, answers.text
FROM
answers
JOIN
questions
ON
answers.question_id = questions.id
WHERE
questions.id = 1
Or:
SELECT
answers.id, answers.text
FROM
questions
JOIN
answers
ON
questions.id = answers.question_id
WHERE
questions.id = 1
Which all return the following (expected) results:
+-----------------------------------+
| Results |
+----+------------------------------+
| id | text |
+----+------------------------------+
| 1 | The Last Of Us |
| 2 | PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds |
| 3 | Uncharted |
+----+------------------------------+
Should any of them be avoided? Is there a preferred way of doing this? Just curious about the dos and don’ts of querying relationships in general really.
If you only want to get the answers, don't involve the questions table.
Just select from the answers.
Adding unused tables into your query makes no sense at all -
It makes the query harder to read, thus harder to maintain,
and It makes the database work harder (though modern databases might just optimize the unused parts of the query away) to get the same results.
If you want to imply relationship between "questions" and "answers" table then you can make id column from "questions" table as Primary key and
question_id column from "answers" as Foreign key
and you use JOIN when you need data(columns) from more than one table
in your case if you want title column to be included then you can JOIN tables

Using a table to lookup multiple IDs on one row

I have two tables I am using at work to help me gain experience in writing SQL queries. One table contains a list of Applications and has three columns -
Application_Name, Application_Contact_ID and Business_Contact_ID. I then have a separate table called Contacts with two columns - Contact_ID and Contact_Name. I am trying to write a query that will list the Application_Name and Contact_Name for both the Applications_Contact_ID and Business_Contact_ID columns instead of the ID number itself.
I understand I need to JOIN the two tables but I haven't quite figured out how to formulate the correct statement. Help Please!
APPLICATIONS TABLE:
+------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
| Application_Name | Application_Contact_ID | Business_Contact_ID |
+------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
| Adobe | 23 | 23 |
| Word | 52 | 14 |
| NotePad++ | 44 | 989 |
+------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
CONTACTS TABLE:
+------------+--------------+
| Contact_ID | Contact_Name |
+------------+--------------+
| 23 | Tim |
| 52 | John |
| 14 | Jen |
| 44 | Carl |
| 989 | Sam |
+------------+--------------+
What I am trying to get is:
+------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+
| Application_Name | Application_Contact_Name | Business_Contact_Name |
+------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+
| Adobe | Tim | Tim |
| Word | John | Jen |
| NotePad++ | Carl | Sam |
+------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------+
I've tried the below but it is only returning the name for one of the columns:
SELECT Application_Name, Application_Contact_ID, Business_Contact_ID, Contact_Name
FROM Applications
JOIN Contact ON Contact_ID = Application_Contact_ID
This is a pretty critical and 101 part of SQL. Consider reading this other answer on a different question, which explains the joins in more depth. The trick to your query, is that you have to join the CONTACTS table twice, which is a bit hard to visualize, because you have to go there for both the application_contact_id and business_contact_id.
There are many flavors of joins (INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, etc.), which you'll want to familiarize yourself with for the future reference. Consider reading this article at the very least: https://www.techonthenet.com/sql_server/joins.php.
SELECT t1.application_name Application_Name,
t2.contact_name Application_Contact_name,
t3.contact_name Business_Contact_name
FROM applications t1
INNER JOIN contacts ON t2 t1.Application_Contact_ID = t2.contact_id -- join contacts for appName
INNER JOIN contacts ON t3 t1.business_Contact_ID = t3.contact_id; -- join contacts for busName

Inserting value into column based on column in separate table

I currently have a situation where I will have 2 tables:
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| OriginalID | NewID | FirstName | lastName |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 123456 | | billy | bob |
| 234567 | | tommy | smith |
| 987654 | | sarah | anders |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ etc etc
and
+--------------+-----------------+
| OriginalID | NewID |
+--------------+-----------------+
| 123456 | 1111111 |
| 234567 | 1111112 |
| 987654 | 1111113 |
+--------------+-----------------+
Without going in-depth into the process itself, I take a record from the first table and insert it into a different system, which gives a record in the form of the second table (generates a custom ID for it).
What I want to do is for every record in the second table, take the NewID and place it into the row with the same OriginalID in the first table (so that it looks like this:
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| OriginalID | NewID | FirstName | lastName |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
| 123456 | 1111111 | billy | bob |
+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+
As a note, the only values I care about dealing with are the OriginalID and NewID, none of the other values are needed. This will happen for multiple tables with different names, so I have given a generic example. For this example the tables can be called
ContactRecords (first table) and NewContact (second table)
I have read over several examples on SO about this type of problem, but none of them quite fit the solution I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance!
This looks like a join update which we had here many times.
update old
set NewID = new.NewID
from ContactRecords as old
inner join NewContact as New on new.OriginalID = old.OriginalID