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ViewsMYSQL full join 4 tables using a reference table
I need some help building a SQL to fetch something like a "FULL OUTER JOIN" over four tables. I have this structure and cannot really modify much on it, cause its a already in use database:
-- ----------------------------
-- Table structure for article
-- ----------------------------
CREATE TABLE `article` (
`ID` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`Name` varchar(255) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`) USING BTREE
) ENGINE = InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT = 3;
INSERT INTO `article` VALUES (1, 'Coffeemaker');
INSERT INTO `article` VALUES (2, 'Toaster');
-- ----------------------------
-- Table structure for language
-- ----------------------------
CREATE TABLE `language` (
`ID` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`Name` varchar(255) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`) USING BTREE
) ENGINE = InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT = 3;
INSERT INTO `language` VALUES (1, 'German');
INSERT INTO `language` VALUES (2, 'English');
-- ----------------------------
-- Table structure for property
-- ----------------------------
CREATE TABLE `property` (
`ID` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`Name` varchar(255) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`) USING BTREE
) ENGINE = InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT = 3;
INSERT INTO `property` VALUES (1, 'DescriptionText');
INSERT INTO `property` VALUES (2, 'EAN-Code');
-- ----------------------------
-- Table structure for data
-- ----------------------------
CREATE TABLE `data` (
`ArticleID` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`PropertyID` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`LanguageID` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`Value` varchar(255) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ArticleID`, `PropertyID`, `LanguageID`) USING BTREE,
CONSTRAINT `FK_ArticleID` FOREIGN KEY (`ArticleID`) REFERENCES `article` (`ID`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `FK_LanguageID` FOREIGN KEY (`LanguageID`) REFERENCES `language` (`ID`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `FK_PropertyID` FOREIGN KEY (`PropertyID`) REFERENCES `property` (`ID`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE = InnoDB;
INSERT INTO `data` VALUES (1, 1, 1, 'Eine Kaffemaschine');
INSERT INTO `data` VALUES (2, 1, 2, 'A toaster');
SQL: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/91dc8/1
What i want to get is a new VIEW which contains a join over all entity-tables showing a row for all articles, all properties and all languages but using the already existing data if available or null if not.
Is it possible? How would the SQL look like?
2 answers
Answer question0
You seem to be after this...
SELECT a.id articleid
, p.id propertyid
, l.id languageid
, d.value
FROM article a
CROSS -- optional keyword
JOIN property p
CROSS -- optional keyword
JOIN language l
LEFT -- not optional
JOIN data d
ON d.articleid = a.id
AND d.propertyid = p.id
AND d.languageid = l.id;
+-----------+------------+------------+--------------------+
| articleid | propertyid | languageid | value |
+-----------+------------+------------+--------------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Eine Kaffemaschine |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NULL |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | NULL |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | NULL |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | NULL |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | A toaster |
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NULL |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NULL |
+-----------+------------+------------+--------------------+
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If you want all articles, you don't want a "full join". You want a left join that starts with the articles table. Further, you don't even need that, because all your articles have values in data.
But the question does specify all articles, so:
SELECT a.*, p.*, l.*, d.*
FROM article a LEFT JOIN
data d
ON d.ArticleID = a.ID LEFT JOIN
property p
ON d.PropertyID = p.id LEFT JOIN
language l
ON d.LanguageID = l.id;
I'm not sure what you mean by all articles and all languages (I missed the second part when I first read the question). If you want all combinations then:
SELECT a.*, p.*, l.*, d.*
FROM article a CROSS JOIN
languages l LEFT JOIN
data d
ON d.ArticleID = a.ID AND
d.LanguageID = l.ID LEFT JOIN
property p
ON d.PropertyID = p.id ;