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Learn T-SQL Querying
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Learn T-SQL Querying

by Pedro Lopes, Pam Lahoud
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
484 pages
11h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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FROM

The FROM clause specifies the tables or views used in the SELECT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. It is required unless a SELECT list contains only constants, variables or arithmetic expressions, or an UPDATE clause does not contain references to other tables other than the target (for example, a join is not needed).

It can be a single table, a derived table (a table created from a nested sub-query), a Table-Valued Function (TVF), or it can be several tables and/or views joined together.

If the desired result set contains data from more than one table or view, joins can be used to link rows from one table to another. There are essentially the following three types of logical joins that are expressed when writing a query:

  • Inner joins ...
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ISBN: 9781789348811