Joining data when one table has null value - sql

Question

I have two tables, and I join them together on the date column. This works great besides when one table are missing the date.
I.e, in table two, I don't have 10.10.2016. I would still love that line to appear in the result, since this is a day I want to show that there has been no activity.
This is for a bar: I have one table where they register the count on the beer tap, and one who keeps track of sold ones.
If they are closed one day, they don't actually sell anything, but they still want the staff to register the number of tapped beers, just in case.
The data from 10.10.2016 would be something like this then:
Table 1 (sales, not open 10.10 = no data stored at all)
Date Sold
10.08 22
10.09 31
10.11 54
Table 2 (Tapped, they count every day = have data 10.10)
Date Tapped
10.08 23
10.09 31
10.10 0
10.11 54
I want the result to show it like this:
Date Tapped Sold Diff
10.08 23 22 1
10.09 31 31 0
10.10 0 0 0
10.11 54 54 0
But I cannot get this to work, because when I join in table two, it can't connect the "sold" and "tapped" ones from 10.10 since I don't have a way to mach them.
Is there any way of doing this?

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE #A
(
DATE NUMERIC
(22,6),SOLD INT
)
INSERT INTO #A VALUES
(10.08,22),
(10.09,31),
(10.11,54)
CREATE TABLE #B
(
DATE NUMERIC
(22,6),TAPPED INT
)
INSERT INTO #B VALUES
(10.08,23),
(10.09,31),
(10.10,0),
(10.11,54)
SELECT A.DATE,A.TAPPED,ISNULL(B.SOLD,0)SOLD,A.TAPPED-ISNULL(B.SOLD,0) AS DIFFRENCE
FROM #B A LEFT JOIN #A B ON A.DATE=B.DATE

Answer 2

Use a left or right join.
Below sample shows how to use RIGHT JOIN.
SELECT t2.Date,t2.Tapped,ISNULL(t1.sold,0) sold,t2.Tapped-ISNULL(t1.sold,0) as Diff
FROM Table1 t1
RIGHT JOIN Table2 t2
ON t1.Date=t2.Date

Answer 3

simple statement
SELECT tapped.date as date, IFNULL(tapped.tapped,0) as tapped, IFNULL(sales.sold,0) as sold, IFNULL(tapped.tapped - sales.sold,0) as diff
FROM
tapped
LEFT OUTER JOIN sales ON sales.date = tapped.date
ORDER BY
tapped.date ASC