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Many to Many relationships
If anyone has done some shopping on the internet you are familiar with the term “Shopping Cart” or “Shopping basket”. After you have selected a product you want to buy the storefront will gladly let you keep on shopping until there are many items in you shopping cart. On my last trip to Amazon.com I put 3 things in my cart before checking out. One item was a HDMI cable box converter for my flat screen TV at home. I took a closer look at this products rating and reviews before buying. Below this product it said this items was in the top 100 selling items in home electronics. This means this items has sold to more people than just me and I was not the first to buy this product.
Based on the story above what is the relationship to a product (like the HDMI cable box) and a customer who may want to buy that item? As a customer I can buy many products at once in my shopping cart. Does this mean there is a one to many relationship between customers (like me) and products (like the HDMI cable box). Yes there is but that is only a half truth. A product like the HDMI cable box can be purchased by many different customers. Therefore there is a Many to Many relationship between Customers and products. This product can be bought by many customers and many customer can buy this product.
Another many to many relationship is between books and Authors. I have written 5 books so we know there is at least a one to many relationship between Authors and Books. Now look at my 4th book (SQL Programming Joes 2 Pros Volume 4 – ISBN-13: 978-1451579482). This book has two authors (Rick A. Morelan and Pinal Dave). Since an Author can write many books and a book can be written by many authors there is a many to many relationship between authors and books.
We need a new process to map this complex relationship. Sometimes tables exist for the sole purpose of allowing indirect relationships between tables. What do you call tables the handle relationships for other tables? Common terms for these type of tables are mapping tables, bridge tables, or junction tables.
Many to Many relationships with invoicing systems
As discussed earlier a product can appear on many invoices and an invoice can have many products. The relationship between products and invoices is known as a many-to-many relationship as seen in the figure below.
If you were to ask yourself “What Products are on Invoice 5631?” or “Go-Duck was ordered on how many invoices?” you could resolve this query? The Figure below shows us how to resolve both mappings. We can see the Go-Duck toy was order twice (on 7/15 and on 9/22). We can also see the shopping cart 5631 has two items in it (Toy Car and Furchee).
Now we’ll take a look at many-to-many relationships between sales invoices and products in the JProCo sample database.
Here is an example of JProCo’s sales invoices mapping to a bridge table (SalesInvoiceDetail) in order to map over to the CurrentProducts table. The CurrentProducts table gives us all the detail of the current products that have been ordered.
With SalesInvoice 5 It looks like many products were ordered on that one invoice (Products 9, 11, 12, and 16). To see what those products are, we would look over to the CurrentProducts table. We see Product 9 is an Underwater Tour 3 Days East Coast. Product 11 is an Underwater Tour 1 Week East Coast, and so forth. So a SalesInvoice can have many products, and products can be ordered on multiple sales invoices.
The SalesInvoiceDetail table is the mapping table that is handling the many to many relationship between the SalesInvoice table and the CurrentProducts table. This 3 table join between these tables would look like the query you see below.
SELECT si.CustomerID, si.InvoiceID, si.OrderDate,
sd.Quantity, cp.ProductName, cp.RetailPrice
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail AS sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice AS si
ON sd.InvoiceID = si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
Note: If you want to setup the sample JProCo database on your system you can watch this video. For this post you will want to run the SQLQueriesChapter3.0Setup.sql script from Volume 2.
Question 8
Q.8) You have tables named dbo.SalesInvoice and dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail. CustomerID is located in the SalesInvoice table and InvoiceID is located in both tables. You have been told to show the discount amounts from the SalesInvoiceDetail table that correspond to the sales of a specific CustomerID of 490. Which T-SQL statement should you use?
- SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490 - SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490 - SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
WHERE EXISTS (dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490)
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123 Comments. Leave new
Answer No. 1 is the right one. It’s a little bit tricky question because CustomerID is located in the SalesInvoice table (alias si), but you can see that all the answers go for SalesInvoiceDetail table (alias sd) to get CustomerID field, so CustomerID field might be located in SalesInvoiceDetail table too…
Rene Castro
El Salvador
Correct answer is option 1:
1.SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
because option 1 has relation between SalesInvoice and SalesInvoiceDetail
also between CurrentProducts and SalesInvoiceDetail tables
Second option does n’t have relation between SalesInvoice and SalesInvoiceDetail
Third option is not a valid query
Thanks.
Country – India
option1 is the query we will use.
Good posts, short and to the point
option1 is the query we will use.
bcz salesinvoice and invoicedetails have a relation based on invoiceid.
and we tie these 2 tables with the invoiceid
Good posts, short and to the point.
Boston USA
1. SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
I think this T-SQL statement will give expected result.
India
-Dnyanesh
Option 1.
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Option 1
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Leo Pius
USA
Option 1 is right answer.
1. SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Neelesh
India
Answer:1
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Kulwant kumar
Delhi India
the answer is
1.SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
country :India [Ahmedabad]
Correct Answer is # 1.
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Gopalakrishnan Arthanarisamy
Bangalore, India
Option 1.
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
will give a correct result.
Correct Answer is option 1.
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
From,
Malay Shah
City:Ahmedabad
Country: India
Correct Answer: Query #1
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Country of residence: India
Answer: Query #1
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Country: India
The correct answer is option 1 that is
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Here we know that SalesInvoiceDetail and SalesInvoice table has “InvoiceID” column collon in both tables so that we can inner join on that. Also we know that we have “ProductID” column in both CurrentProducts and SalesInvoiceDetail table so that we can make Inner Join on that. Also we only details of CustomerID= 490
, so that we have to put this into “Where” clause.
I am from
INDIA
AHMEDABAD
Hi Pinal,
I believe that the alias for one of the tables is not correct, but if I would go for it it would be
1. SELECT si.CustomerID, sd.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Location US – Minneapolis.
Hi,
Q.8) You have tables named dbo.SalesInvoice and dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail. CustomerID is located in the SalesInvoice table and InvoiceID is located in both tables. You have been told to show the discount amounts from the SalesInvoiceDetail table that correspond to the sales of a specific CustomerID of 490. Which T-SQL statement should you use?
Ans 1
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
I am from India
The Correct Answer is Option 1:
SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
India.
Correct answer is option 1:
1.SELECT sd.CustomerID, si.DiscountAmt, cp.ProductName
FROM dbo.SalesInvoiceDetail sd
INNER JOIN dbo.SalesInvoice si
ON sd.InvoiceID= si.InvoiceID
INNER JOIN CurrentProducts AS cp
ON cp.ProductID = sd.ProductID
WHERE si.CustomerID= 490
Pratik Raval
India