Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes, Second Edition

Lesson 15. Creating Advanced Joins

In this lesson, you learn all about additional join types—what they are and how to use them. You also learn how to use table aliases and how to use aggregate functions with joined tables.

Using Table Aliases

Back in Lesson 9, “Creating Calculated Fields,” you learned how to use aliases to refer to retrieved table columns. The syntax to alias a column looks like this:

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SELECT RTrim(vend_name) + ' (' + RTrim(vend_country) + ')'        AS vend_title FROM vendors ORDER BY vend_name;

In addition to using aliases for column names and calculated fields, SQL also enables you to ...