Suppose that a website contains two tables, the Customers
table and the Orders
table. Write a SQL query to find all customers who never order anything.
Table: Customers
.
+----+-------+ | Id | Name | +----+-------+ | 1 | Joe | | 2 | Henry | | 3 | Sam | | 4 | Max | +----+-------+
Table: Orders
.
+----+------------+ | Id | CustomerId | +----+------------+ | 1 | 3 | | 2 | 1 | +----+------------+
Using the above tables as example, return the following:
+-----------+ | Customers | +-----------+ | Henry | | Max | +-----------+
思路:
way 1:
用嵌套子查询,适合多表格比较的情况。在Customers表中选择Id不在Orders表的CustomerId集合里面的元组
way 2:
用左外连接实现。首先要搞明白普通的连接功能是找到两个表格的公共集合然后形成新的表。
左外连接的关键词是left join或者left outer join,然后再加一个on,其实质就是一种构造基本表的方式
通过左外连接得到新的表后,再选出相应的元组即可
way 1:
select Name from Customers where Id not in ( select CustomerId from Orders )
way 2:
select Name from Customers as c left outer join Orders as d on c.Id = d.CustomerId where CustomerId is null