Get correct result from mysql query - sql

I have the following tables:
**products** which has these fields: id,product,price,added_date
**products_to_categories** which has these fields: id,product_id,category_id
**adverts_to_categories** -> id,advert_id,category_id
**adverts** which has these fields: id,advert_name,added_date,location
I can not execute sql that will return to me all products that are from category 14 and that are owned by advert located in London. So I have 4 tables and 2 conditions - to be from category 14 and the owner of the product to be from London. I tried many variants to execute sql but none of the results were correct.. Do I need to use Join and which Join - left, right, full? How the correct sql will look like? thank you in advance for your help and sorry for boring you :)
This is what I have tried so far:
SELECT p.id, product, price, category_id,
p.added_date, adverts.location, adverts.id
FROM products p,
products_to_categories ptc,
adverts,
adverts_to_categories ac
WHERE ptc.category_id = "14"
AND ptc.product_id=p.id
AND ac.advert_id=adverts.id
AND adverts.location= "London"

pretty basic logic
Select * from Products P
INNER JOIN Products_To_Categories PTC ON P.ID = PTC.Product_ID
INNER JOIN Adverts_to_Categories ATC ON ATC.Category_Id = PTC.Category_ID
INNER JOIN Adverts AD on AD.ID = ATC.Advert_ID
WHERE PTC.Category_ID = 14 and AD.Location = 'LONDON'
you would only need a LEFT or right join IF you wanted records from a table which didn't exist in other tables.
so for example, if you wanted all products even if a records even those without a category, then you would use a LEFT Join instead of inner.

The following statement should return all columns from the product table in category with id 14 and all adverts located in London:
select p.* from products p
inner join products_to_categories pc on p.id = pc.product_id
inner join adverts_to_categories ac on pc.category_id = ac.category_id
inner join adverts a on a.id = ac.advert_id
where pc.category_id = 14
and ac.location = 'London';
You should remember to add an index to the column location if you are doing these string-based queries very often.

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Left outer join with count, on 3 tables not returning all rows from left table

I have these 3 tables:
Areas - id, name
Persons - id, area_id
Special_Persons - id_person, date
I'd like to produce a list of all Areas, followed by a count of Special Persons in each area, including Areas with no Special Persons.
If I do a left join of Areas and Persons, like this:
select a.id as idArea, count(p.id) as count
from areas a
left join persons p on p.area_id = a.id
group by a.id;
This works just fine; Areas that have no Persons show up, and have a count of 0.
What I am not clear on is how to do the same thing with the special_persons table, which currently only has 2 entries, both in the same Area.
I have tried the following:
select a.id as idArea, count(sp.id_person) as count
from special_persons sp, areas a
left join persons p on p.area_id = a.id
where p.area_id = a.id
and sp.id_person = p.id
group by a.id;
And it only returns 1 row, with the Area that happens to have 2 Special Persons in it, and a count of 2.
To continue getting a list of all areas, do I need to use a sub-query? Another join? I'm not sure how to go about it.
You can add another left join to the Special_Persons table:
select a.id as idArea, count(p.id), count(sp.id_person)
from areas a
left join persons p on p.area_id = a.id
left join special_persons sp on sp.id_person = p.id
group by a.id;

Basic SQL Joining Tables

Having a bit of trouble with a basic SQL problem.
The question is that I have to find the salespersons first and last name, then their Social Insurance Number, the product description, the product price, and quantity sold where the total quantity sold is greater than 5.
I'll attach the database information below as a photo.
Product quantity sold greater than 5
SELECT ProductId
FROM ProductsSales
HAVING SUM(QuantitySold) > 5
Use that to get the rest:
SELECT s.FirstName, s.LastName, s.SIN, p.ProductDescription, ps.UnitSalesPrice, ps.QuantitySold
FROM ProductsSales ps
LEFT JOIN Products p on p.ProductID = ps.ProductID
LEFT JOIN Salesmen s on s.SalesmaneID = ps.SellerID
WHERE ps.ProductID IN
(
SELECT ProductId
FROM ProductsSales
GROUP BY ProductId
HAVING SUM(QuantitySold) > 5
)
SELECT a.FirstName, a.LastName, a.SIN, c.ProductDescription, b.UnitSalesPrice, b.QuantitySold
FROM Salesmen a
LEFT JOIN ProductsSales b
ON a.SalesmanId = b.SellerId
LEFT JOIN Products c
ON b.ProductId = c.ProductId
WHERE b.QuantitySold > 5
Select a.FirstName, a.LastName, a.SIN From Salesmen as a,
c.ProductDescriptio, c.Price, b.sum(QunatitySold)
inner join ProductSales as b on a.Salesmanid = b.sellerid
inner join Products as c on c.ProductId = b.ProductId
having b.sum(QunatitySold)> 5
group by a.FirstName, b.ProductDescription
Brad,
Welcome to SQL. Joining for me was a terrifying experience when I first started but its really easy. The general concept is this:
Pick a Join
If you want to see all records that would be common between the two table, you would use and JOIN. If you wanted to combine the two tables but still show all records you use LEFT JOIN
The basic syntax is
SELECT fieldnames FROM tablename alias
JOIN othertable alias ON firstalias.field = secondalias.field
--Example
SELECT animal, food, idtag from animals a
JOIN food f on a.animalid = f.animalid
This assumes you have a common field animalid in both the animals table and the food table. you should also ideally preface the field names with the alias to make it easier to understand like this: a.animal, f.food
And you keep going until you have joined all the tables you need.
Make sure you only request field names you want
Hope that helps

I need help formatting inner join command in SQL query

Here is my ERD for SQL Server:
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5832/23786188186_d6f1d93132_o.jpg
I need to find out which books are associated with each publisher.
USE BookStoreDB
SELECT ProductID
FROM Books
INNER JOIN [Publishers] PublisherID ON PublishersID = ProductID
I'm assuming I just didn't create the INNER JOIN command correctly?
SELECT p.PublisherID, b.ProductID
FROM Books b
INNER JOIN Publishers p ON p.PublisherID = b.PublisherID
The ON part of a join defines how the two tables are related to each other. In your case, it would be:
INNER JOIN Publishers ON (Books.PublisherID = Publishers.PublisherID)
If you put something between the name of the table, and the ON, it's treated as an alias. You can (and should) also use these aliases in your SELECT
FROM Books B
INNER JOIN Publishers P ON (B.PublisherID = P.PublisherID)
Finally, you probably want to select information that will actually tell you who the publisher is:
SELECT B.ISBN, P.CompanyName
FROM Books B
INNER JOIN Publishers P ON (B.PublisherID = P.PublisherID)

SQL query with three level categories

This problem has puzzled me a while and I hope there are some wiz that could help solve this problem. I have a product table with three level of categories (three tables). I'm trying to list all products that is connected to the last level(third level) of the categories. When running the query below ALL products in the product table is listed.
Here is the SQL query.
SELECT *
FROM Product
INNER JOIN Product_Category
ON Product.ProductCategoryID = Product_Category.ProductCategoryID
INNER JOIN Product_Sub_Category
ON Product_Category.ProductCategoryID = Product_Sub_Category.ProductCategoryID
INNER JOIN Product_Sub_Sub_Category
ON Product_Sub_Category.ProductSubCategoryID = Product_Sub_Sub_Category.ProductSubCategoryID
WHERE Product_Sub_Sub_Category.ProductSubSCategoryID = request.querystring
You need to join on SubCategoryId on the second level and SubSubCategoryId on the third level
SELECT *
FROM
Product
INNER JOIN Product_Category ON (Product.ProductCategoryID = Product_Category.ProductCategoryID)
INNER JOIN Product_Sub_Category ON (Product_Category.ProductSubCategoryID = Product_Sub_Category.ProductSubCategoryID)
INNER JOIN Product_Sub_Sub_Category ON (Product_Sub_Category.ProductSubSubCategoryID = Product_Sub_Sub_Category.ProductSubSubCategoryID)
WHERE
Product_Sub_Sub_Category.ProductSubSubCategoryID = (request.querystring)

SQL JOIN using a mapping table

I have three tables:
COLLECTION
PERSON
PERSON_COLLECTION
where PERSON_COLLECTION is a mapping table id|person_id|collection_id
I now want to select all entries in collection and order them by person.name.
Do I have to join the separate tables with the mapping table first and then do a join again on the results?
SELECT
c.*,
p.Name
FROM
Collection c
JOIN Person_Collection pc ON pc.collection_id = c.id
JOIN Person p ON p.id = pc.person_id
ORDER BY p.Name
Not sure without the table schema but, my take is:
SELECT
c.*,
p.*
FROM
Person_Collection pc
LEFT JOIN Collection c
ON pc.collection_id = c.id
LEFT JOIN Person p
ON pc.person_id = p.id
ORDER BY p.name
The order you join won't break it but depending on which sql product you're using may effect performance.
You need to decide if you want ALL records from both/either table or only records which have a matching mapping entry, this will change the type of join you need to use.